Elder Post Dances
Dance Postcards
Inspired by the COVID pandemic stay-at-home order, this project explores how one can dance with another person via postcards. Along with sending postcards to older friends and family, I also sent cards to elders in nursing homes. Postcards consisted of descriptions or drawings of gestures and movements with an invitation to respond back with a gesture.
The gestures exchanged were created in pandemic times and spaces, namely in homes of various types across the US. This project is a choreographic act of community making - a way to dance together and be in community.
This project was funded by the Gluck Fellows Program of the Arts.
2021-2022 pen, marker, postcards, gestures
Sent Post Cards
Received Post Cards
Mini Dances
Combining the gesture I sent and the gesture I received, a mini dance forms. I perform three mini dances below in my home in Miami as seen through GIF format. The next iteration will be a rotoscoped print flip book.
i.
Swan Baby
ii.
cat stretch dog walk
iii.
Slow quick quick Slow
mouse penguin