Pillow Dances (2014-2016)
Image description: a screenshot of an Instagram grid with videos of long-distance chronic illness movement scores shared between Laura Harris Farrell and Kiera Bono. Kiera appears in various hotel rooms across various states, and Laura appears in an indoor dance studio and outdoors among trees and grass.
Image description: Angelina, Laura, and Kiera sit and lie down on a wooden dance studio floor, engaged in a shared writing practice while the audience sits along windows with some early evening sunlight coming through them.
Image description: Kiera stands in a room watching a video of Kiera, Laura, and Angelina moving through chronic illness scores together on a desktop computer screen and projected on a larger projection screen. The shadow of Kiera’s head falls on the projected wooden studio floor under Laura, who is seated.
Pillow Dances was a collaborative movement practice with and through chronic physical and mental illness and late capitalist exhaustion. Laura Harris Farrell, Angelina Marriott, and I regularly cooked together, ate together, were in pain together, and engaged in kitchen scores, living room scores, bedroom scores, outdoor scores, studio scores, and writing scores that took cues from our sick and/or in-pain bodyminds. We had an informal studio showing at Gibney Dance Center in 2015 and a performance curated by Lark Morgenstern of 133 Design Collective (776 Lorimer Street) in 2016.