Banner Cycle (2016-2018)
Taking its name from the student information system (Banner) that The New School used when I worked there as an admission counselor, this cycle involved eight distinct but connected public performances and collaborative movement and sound practices running through/around them with Melisande Echanique, Laura Harris Farrell, Zoey Hart, Simone Johnson, Angelina Marriott, and Ella Dawn W-S. Sitting squarely in the ever-shifting relational space of admission processes (submitting, accepting, rejecting), chronic gastrointestinal illness (shared diasporic cooking practices, eating, glitching, bleeding, disabled waste processes, composting), and performance practices (subject/object interaction and blurring, assimilation and resistance, being perceived while perceiving, embodied archives spilling into one another), I approached this performance/admission dyad as a digestive dance: who consumes and who is consumed? What possibilities might emerge from stewing in our bodily archives of subject/object interaction as performances of digestive admission processes?
Public Performances:
SAADCRV: LUNA® Bar (Chez Bushwick works-in-progress showing, June 2017), choreographed and performed in collaboration with Angelina Marriott
SAADCRV: Jerky (Silent Barn, Summer-Fall 2017), solo performance installation in the south garage
SAADCRV: Margherita Pie and Peaches in collaboration with Simone Johnson and Angelina Marriott (New Women Space, as part of Trash Capsules: Archives of Food, Illness, and Diaspora, co-curated with Alexander Enzo Hope, August 2017)
Source/Background Institution Query-Only [SOISBGI] (Green Space, November 2017), choreographed and performed in collaboration with Laura Harris Farrell
SOAIDEN [Person Search] (The Owl Music Parlor, February 2018), choreographed and performed in collaboration with Melisande Echanique and Simone Johnson
SOAIDNS [Person Search Detail] (Sweet Inferno, February 2018), choreographed and performed in collaboration with Melisande Echanique and Simone Johnson
SAAACKL [Admission Application/Checklist Summary] (Small Plates Choreography Festival, March 2018), choreographed and performed in collaboration with Melisande Echanique, Laura Harris Farrell, and Simone Johnson
SFAREGQ [Registration Query Form] (Triskelion Arts, December 2018), choreographed and performed in collaboration with Melisande Echanique and Ella Dawn W-S