highly collaborative VISUAL STORIES
"BODYART shines on stage and screen." - Medium
Digital Magpies
Digital Magpies is a new work that explores the ways in which we collect, curate, and present ourselves in the digital landscape. Part interactive performance, part multi-media installation, Digital Magpies examines the choices we make online (intentional and otherwise.) How do we decide what to present to the digital world? What is our digital footprint? What do we like, comment, share, or post? Digital Magpies asks the audience to examine their online choices and how they engage in the digital landscape. Our digital identities have been granted immortality in exchange for making public every online interaction. Digital Magpies dissects the digital identities we’ve created, pulls them apart and asks: How does the you online stack up against the you IRL?
HYMN+THEM
hymn+them is a multimedia reflection of Dorothy's famous journey to OZ, using the iconic heroine as a lens to investigate the identity of today’s American woman: her desire to escape, her desire to belong, her desire for more than what’s presented to her.
Herself born and raised in Kansas, choreographer Leslie Scott is familiar with Oz-ian tropes and uses Wizard of Oz, Dorothy, and Judy Garland herself to investigate romanticized idealism manifested from media and pop culture.
REMNANTS
Remnants is a digital experience that uses an AR (augmented reality) app for storytelling to reframe the user’s home as a site for interrogating our relationship to ephemerality and preservation, accumulation and loss, and our beautiful but futile battle with time. Remnants deploys the technology available through smartphones to turn the user’s living space into a virtual world filled with images, sounds, and text that reexamine how we experience time. The digital content will be inspired by the interrogation of everyday household objects and their relationship to memory, loss, love, and desire.
MAISON
In Maison, guests are invited to spend an evening roaming a private New Orleans residence, tasting dance inspired dishes and experiencing immersive performance found in the home’s unique nooks and crannies. Each night comprises of two acts: an intimate dinner for a small group and an open party for many.
“Exploring the barriers between the ‘real’ and the ‘created’…” Maison Press
DANCE FILMS
Site specific / XR
Remnants | Augmented Reality Experience *2022
Maison | New Orleans private residence in Broadmoor
GreenTable | Tulane University
WALK | Queens Botanical Garden
Lost | Ojai research center
EVENING
digital magpies | Tulane University, Spencer Museum
h y m n + t h e m | Tulane University, Peter & Paul Arts Center, FIIN Intercultural Festival - Chile, Santiago OFF! - Chile, 53°70° Contemporary Dance Festival
Thread | Jazz @ Lincoln Center NYC, Summerhall - UK
Loft | Bass Performance Hall, Baruch Performing Arts Center
Anatomy of Lost | Brooklyn Lyceum, Theater For the New City, Body Festival - NZ
Limbo | Joyce Soho, Dixon Place, Bass Performance Hall
An Hour About An Hour | Ailey Citigroup Theatre NYC, Music Center - UK
shorter
light + shadow | Tulane University
U.S. vs Them | Tulane University
windows and doors | CalState Fullerton, Northwestern State University
herd | REDCAT & Grand Valley State University
dark light | St Louis Dance Festival