SELECTED MOVEMENT/PERFORMANCE WORK
Bird bones/Sparrow songs (Governors Island, 2024) Image description: Michelle Mantione, Krista Miranda, Ella Dawn W-S, Kiera Bono, and Lu Yim are tangled in a web of sensory textiles made by Sugandha Gupta out of Kiera’s accumulated beige cotton wrist stockinettes, which are stained and dense with residual pain relief salve after years of use. Michelle reaches their left arm ahead across Krista, who wears a scarf-like textile around her neck; Krista twists diagonally to the right with her left arm extended toward Kiera, Ella, and Lu; Ella stands on a grey stone fountain edge behind Kiera and Lu and looks downward; and Kiera and Lu hold and stretch a textile that is connected to Michelle’s chain of unused stockinettes. Photo credit: Maddie Barkocy
Open Reduction Internal Fixation (ORIF) (Snug Harbor Cultural Center, 2020-2022) Image description: Ella Dawn W-S makes gluten-free pasta from scratch with a vintage pasta maker on a white table with grey metal legs, Alexander Enzo Hope does a saline infusion in a video projection on a white wall, and Kiera audio describes Alexander’s infusion process. Alexander pushes saline through a syringe connected by tubing into his left, stockinette-clad arm with plastic medical packaging gathered on a reflective table in front of him. Shadows of Ella, Kiera, and two bicycles haunt the back corner of the space. Photo credit: Lance J. Reha
SAAACKL [Admission Application/Checklist Summary] (Small Plates Dance Festival, March 2018) Image description: Simone Johnson sits above Kiera on a wooden floor and reaches out to touch Kiera’s rib while Kiera connects their feet with Melisande Echanique’s back and Melisande’s shoulder blade connects with Simone’s shoulder blade. They find relation and support through their bones. Photo credit: Marianne Killackey
drone_dance01_trim.mp4 (Catwalk Institute, June 2018) Image description: Kiera and Matthew D. Morrison stand in a green field together, surrounded by trees, grass, plants, and patches of sunlight and leaf shadows. Kiera plays accordion and Matthew plays violin in collaboration/tension with the hum of a drone hovering near them.
Trash Capsules: Archives of Illness, Food, and Diaspora (New Women Space, August 2017) Image description: an assemblage of medical ephemera arranged and photographed by Alexander Enzo Hope; IV tubing weaves into plastic and paper gauze packaging and soft stockinettes, all bathing in a golden/beige/orange glow.
Pillow Dance Iteration (133 Design Collective, June 2016) Image description: Angelina Marriott and Kiera stand in a room with brick walls and a large window and intestinal pillow sculpture by Maddy Geftic to their left. They both step forward with their right legs and touch their own right forearms with their left hands. Photo credit: Dana Trunk