SOUP
With a keen interest in improvisation in my choreographic process, I have found the game of SOUP to be a playful and exhaustive way of cracking open ways of thinking and making. A gift from Crystal Pite to my mentor Erica Sobol, who so graciously gifted it to me- this is a game of 14 prompts of which the participants have agency to call and engage. As I began to research my creative screendance practice outside of the "more typical" choreographic process I had always known, I began to subvert, add and change these prompts to involve the use of a camera into the improv space- to blur the line between watcher and watched, performer and capturer, camera body and human body.
30TH BIRTHDAY SOUP
For my 30th birthday I wanted to introduce the camera into the game in an effort to begin to dismantle hierarchy between camera and body in dance spaces. This video is an edit of that time together.
Soup II
For this second round of soup with camera, I invited anyone from the 2024 MA Screendance cohort to come into the space with a camera with the caveat that they must enter as a participant and not a viewer and that the camera must be democratic and open to any participant to take agency with. This video is an edit of that process created by Oddalys Salcido.