Bunker + Vault (10 or 37 minutes)
Bunker + Vault is about the relentless pressures placed on the female body over generations. It is about repression, resistance, and resilience.
Though this is a deeply personal solo, I was influenced by archival research I did on the women who resided at the 92nd Y Residence and The Clara de Hirsch home for Working Girls from 1899-1950. Almost all of these women were Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. My practice grew from this research, embodying and visualizing memories of these women, as well as my own, approaching time in a non-linear fashion, and reflecting on shared history through generations.
This relentless solo uses grounded and rhythmical movement as an access point into intensity and rawness.
About:
Bunker + Vault won the Jury Prize for “best indoor choreographic work” at the 2019 Festival Quartiers Danses in Montreal Canada. The full length work has been presented in Istanbul, Turkey (Istanbul Fringe 2023), San Luis Potosí, Mexico (CEART), Montreal (Festival Quartiers Danses, 2022), Nashville (Kindling Arts Festival 2022), Vancouver, B.C. (Dancing On The Edge Festival 2022), San José, Costa Rica (Grafica Genesis 2022, and Solos Hecho a Mano 2021).
The short version has been presented in Frankfurt and Friedrichshafen, Germany (SOLOCOREOGRAFICO 2022) Berlin, Germany (Lucky Trimmer 2022), Portland, USA (PDX Festival 2021), Singapore (M1 Contact Contemporary Festival 2021 online), Carcassonne and Toulouse, France (La Galerie Chorégraphique 2021 and 2022), NYC (Create:Art, and The Moving Memory Project), Mexico City (Cuerpo al Descubierto), Wells, B.C. (ArtsWells), Vancouver, B.C. (Chutzpah! Festival).
Acknowledgements:
Conney Conference 2019 and Bernard Schwartz at the 92nd Y Archives, Canada Council for the Arts for travel funding, Dance Artist in Residence program at the Banff Centre for the Arts, and La Galerie Chorégraphique.
