Caution Wet Floor

Caution Wet Floor (2/23): Co-directed with Eva Thomas, Caution Wet Floor is a movement and visual arts study of revolutionary pathways, and cautionary signs. Inspired by Deborah Hay’s choreographic inquiries in Using the Sky: A Dance, this filmic journey explores agency, boundary, and the murky depth of the industrial subconscious, wandering through underground tunnels. Within the uncanny industrial world of liminal spaces are basements and laundromats. The slip of paint on the human body, footprints, when dance creates its material artifact intentionally. The painting is a language and has been interpreted as a choreographic notation. It is an archaeology in time, with singing and soundscapes from the same basement, and grey timeless echoes, chasing. The story perpetually unfolds as the pathway revolutionizes itself — a chamber.

Fear holds us back from inevitable transformations, all lines eventually reveal themselves as circles. Through movement, song, and painting, the piece questions our attachment to imagined security in pathways and beckons a surrender to the creative truths in winding sunless tunnels | Dance Composition: Form, Barnard College

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Climbing, Lost by Lily Selthofner — poetry used in sound