Embryology (2022) A diptych, this short film brings to light an unlikely dialogue between body, speech, and science, across generations. Part of Bodycartography Project’s “a collection of fluid spaces” exhibition at Norsk Teknisk Museum, Oslo. (7:30)

Sticks/figures (2021) is filmed on a creek known for its major drop (waterfall) upstream, before it empties into a large glacial lake. Located between these attractions, a stone bridge achieves its own monumental presence. (10:32)

WINTERING  (2021)  Overwintering is a process of passing through, waiting out a period of cold, harsh conditions. Winter can be a thrill where I live, an encounter with the body as a furnace, as a generator. (5:34)

ΔΔΔΔΔ (2019)  

Inspired by the holding and release of an archer’s bow, actions momentarily uniting our depth, surface, and the distance. With Bryeson Henry, Erin Kehoe, Frances Alani, Kathryn Harlan-Gran, Ksenia Ionova, Michael Bardo, Rosana Lamadrid, Yuhan Hu. Original score, Max Buckholtz. Cornell University. (Photo: Thomas Hoebbel)

Small Catastrophes (2019)

Understory (2018)

InLetTreeOh (2018)

Movement and vocal dialogues in public park-lands, with Cynthia Stevens.

SEED/BED  (2018)    A reflection on landscape, language, and the body, distilling movement practice taking place in nature and the human-nature culture found there. In collaboration with Elizabeth Chiles’ exhibition Weave at greyDUCK gallery, Austin.

KOZYWORLD (2016) with Margit Galanter (Photo: B. Gonzales)

a dance that invites reciprocity

gets under, cover, weight/waits, move

is a   _______   performance that is influenced by words, by concept in fashion, and by this mysterious thing, togetherness

Electric Shocks (2015)

Collaboration with Maija Hynninen, Eero Tiittula, Suvi Matinaro, Markus Serala, Alejandro Montes.

Performances @ ElectriCITY Festival, Helsinki

Yo, Genesis (2013)   

Explores the origins, arrival and usefulness of rhythm, cadence and gesture in the body. Original score (2014) by Maija Hynninen (Photo: Will Dibrell)

BodyShift (2013)

Susie Angel, Shaniqua Esparza, Kathey Ferland, Brandon Gonzalez, Alison Kafer, Lucy Kerr, Peggy Lamb, Silva Laukkanen, Juan Munoz, Olivia O’Hare, Rufus Jones, Derrick Washington (Photo: T. Geibink)

“The traded look goes on…There is no intention here… There is only wild seeing, the feel of it unimaginable”

Tim Lilburn

T W E L V E  H O U R S (2012)

From 7am-7pm, Julie and Beverly Bajema share and perform dance and dance making practices. (the listening hand that doesn’t want anything; witness; fuf tuffets, tove) (Photo: Jana Rock)

What Is Common (2012, 2013)  

Elaine Dove, Heloise Gold, JN Light: Jennifer Rogers. Fusebox Festival, Austin.

(Of the necker cube) “The figure is what it appears to be: a transparent box projecting, say, to the left. And it is, also, what is also appears to be:  a transparent box projecting to the right. ‘What is common’ is an internal relation between things. 

Jan Zwicky 

Working the Line (2010)

Elaine Dove, Heloise Gold, Meg Sullivan, JN. Light: Jennifer Rogers. Fusebox Festival, Austin

Photos: Will Dibrell

DUET (2009)

DUET II (2009)

The Meeting Point (2009)

Beverly Bajema, Kalila Homann, Heloise Gold, Meg Sullivan, Lauren Tietz, Elaine Dove, Julie Nathanielsz, Carl Smith (tenor sax) Blanton Museum, Austin.

Isabella (2008) Meg Brooker; Costume Technology: Eleanor Fluharty, Chad May; Costume Design: Jen Madison; Lights: Katie Hallie; Music: Lily Allen Sound design: JN

Her effect was of an umbrella opening in a phone booth.

Cathy Horyn, recalling Isabella Blow