SISTERCRAFT Craft is the breath of my work. I collaborate with dancers to generate and rigorously fine-tune move- ment vocabularies specific to each dance, drafting and redrafting, crafting and recrafting until there is nothing extra or unnecessary. BY RANDEE PAUFVE | PHOTOS BY STEPHEN TEXEIRA
My latest project, Sisters , is an anthol- ogy of dances regarding sisterhood, motherhood, pregnancy, birth, abor- tion, and death. Created in collabo- ration with eleven women who span borders of dance forms and life expe- riences, Sisters reclaims feminism as a celebration of the resilience and power of women, of femininity, of any gen- der expression; and as a progression toward freedom of choice, identity, and bodily autonomy.
I invite dancers from a variety of back- grounds to explore a different or fresh relationship to our respective formative genres, and to more deeply inhabit the forms we have in common. In this way, I think of craft as empowerment, as our work together is fundamentally co-cre- ative, supporting dancer agency, placing the burden of communication on move- ment, and imagining an audience that craves the sort of expression only dance can provide.
Maurya Kerr and Molly Levy in Sisters
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