...And We Will Have Danced Together (2013)

I’ll Dance While You’re Dancing and We Will Have Danced Together

What does it mean to dance “together”? How far can we stretch the space between two (or more) people dancing collaboratively?

I’ll Dance While You’re Dancing and We Will Have Danced Together is a game of (video) telephone. Using Vine and Twitter, participating performers in different cities take turns creating and responding to each other’s movements across time and space. Each performer is instructed to create an instant composition in response to the particularities of their own location and subjective experience, filming resonant elements to share with other performers. As video accumulates, performers are invited to respond to the contributions of others, tracking the flow of inspiration and the manner in which ideas get taken up, transported, developed, and recycled.

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Commissioned by and premiered at the International Dance Theatres Festival in Lublin, Poland (2013). Additional performances at the Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival – Cairo (2014), The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative in Charlottesville, VA (2014), Culturehub in New York, NY (2014), and Fleet Moves Dance Festival in Wellfleet, MA (2015).

Photos: Maciej Rukasz and Whitney Browne