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The Making of ChoreOVID #19 - Grace

The “19” of COVID19 refers to the calendar year 2019. Seems like eons ago! But it marks the year when this particular virus was...

The Making of ChoreOVID #18- In the Coming Weeks

In the early summer of 2020 when images and renderings of the COVID19 virus started to come out, the extravagant beauty of it struck me....

The Making of ChoreOVID #17 - Blursday

I had a blank in my original list for this series since I figured that over time something would emerge that I couldn’t have know about...

The Making of ChoreOVID #16 - Dinner Plans

A good dinner party has delicious camaraderie, delightful balance of colors and flavors, clever repartee and well-timed jokes, bits of...

The Making of ChoreOVID #15 - Skewed

I experimented last summer with tipping my laptop sideways to capture a vertical image in zoom, which seemed more apt for a dancing body...

The Making of ChoreOVID #14 - Social D ancing

This is a story about how seemingly disparate experiences can converge in the making of art: trampolines, word play, ballroom dancing,...

The Making of ChoreOVID #13 - Rumpus Room

Having raised two boys over the past two decades, we have a collection of stuffed animals that continue to linger in our home. When...

The Making of ChoreOVID #12 - Pledge

I spent only one third of my first 18 years of life in the US. While living in other countries I was most definitely self-identifying as...

The Making of ChoreOVID #11 - Don't Just Sit There

In March 2020 many people entered into the world of Zoom – for teaching, meeting, and socializing. Along with colleagues and friends, I...

The Making of ChoreOVID #10 - The Center Can Hold

There is a labyrinth in front of an Episcopalian church near where I live which has always intrigued me. As I was plotting these 19...

The Making of ChoreOVID #8 - Unpacking Pandemic

Spoil alert: I strongly recommend you see the film before reading this... here's the link, if you haven't already seen it:...

The Making of ChoreOVID #7 - Prayer for the World

We are not okay. The children are not okay. The teachers are not okay. Gaia is not okay. I despair at times; I wonder if this is in fact...

The Making of ChoreOVID #6 - Six Feet Two Hands

Hand movements and gestures have been a frequent choreographic theme in my work. I think of the upper body fore-fronting emotional...

The Making of ChoreOVID #5 - And Counting

This piece is literally layered. It is layered with its iterative stages of process, with clothing, with connotations, with sounds, and...

The Making of ChoreOVID #4: Deep End

Where did this idea start? I think as public pools were deciding whether to open or not, I felt sadness for the many children and adults...

The Making of ChoreOVID #3 - Breathing Room

My original list of concepts for my 19 ChoreOVIDs included: "Just trying to dance in a small space". As my dancing friends and colleagues...

The Making of ChoreOVID #2 - Touch and Go

Pandemic. Stay home. Get masks. Have fabric. Dig out sewing machine. Make masks. Give masks away. Make more masks. Wear masks. Begin to...

The Making of ChoreOVID #1 - The Waiting Room

After weeks of teaching and meeting on Zoom, I along with the rest of the world, it seemed, were trying to situate our senses through the...

19ChoreOVIDs

Back in March I made a commitment to make 19 short pieces (videos) all in some way relating to the COVID times: with themes such as...

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