Mariana Valencia and I will be sharing an evening of solos.
AND WE ARE: having met in 2013-ish as Chez Bushwick AIRS. Little did we know then that we were simultaneously beginning new ways to make work and honor the dances that lived inside our bodies. And now we are here, turned around so much that we found each other 10 years down the road. We have deepened and returned to our dances in ways that fit who we are now. We have our stories to tell and these bodies to move. AND THIS IS: Mariana reinterprets a dance that she made a decade ago. She upholds the improvisatory and lyrical qualities of the work, two essential elements of her research since. Within her current—older yet newer—body, she’s chasing after the remnants of something that’s aged well over time. MEANWHILE: Katie re-works a solo made in 2022 newly titled We Must Take the Canoe. This piece marked a return to set work after a 10 year departure into Authentic Movement and improvisational forms. Shewades deep into historical fantastical scenarios, American myths of pioneering and conquest, personal and imagined anecdotes to construct a self.