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 “19” of COVID19 refers to the calendar year 2019. Seems like eons ago! But it marks the year when this particular virus was...
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....
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...
A good dinner party has delicious camaraderie, delightful balance of colors and flavors, clever repartee and well-timed jokes, bits of...
I experimented last summer with tipping my laptop sideways to capture a vertical image in zoom, which seemed more apt for a dancing body...
This is a story about how seemingly disparate experiences can converge in the making of art: trampolines, word play, ballroom dancing,...
Having raised two boys over the past two decades, we have a collection of stuffed animals that continue to linger in our home. When...
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...
In March 2020 many people entered into the world of Zoom – for teaching, meeting, and socializing. Along with colleagues and friends, I...
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...
When I first brainstormed my 19 videos in response to the coronavirus, I jotted down the idea of painting on the wall of my home...
Spoil alert: I strongly recommend you see the film before reading this... here's the link, if you haven't already seen it:...
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...
Hand movements and gestures have been a frequent choreographic theme in my work. I think of the upper body fore-fronting emotional...
This piece is literally layered. It is layered with its iterative stages of process, with clothing, with connotations, with sounds, and...
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...
My original list of concepts for my 19 ChoreOVIDs included: "Just trying to dance in a small space". As my dancing friends and colleagues...
Pandemic. Stay home. Get masks. Have fabric. Dig out sewing machine. Make masks. Give masks away. Make more masks. Wear masks. Begin to...
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...
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...