a bit of history

In one of the first incar­na­tions of col­lec­tivesta­tic per­for­mance, ‘OhMeOhMy’ was a dance cre­ated in silence, then set together with an orig­i­nal score on the harp. we gen­er­ated two sep­a­rate enti­ties, move­ment and sound, and per­formed them as a shift­ing and spon­ta­neous rela­tion­ship. awe­somely, some 800 col­lege stu­dents wit­nessed this hap­pen­ing amidst a lineup of seri­ous booty-shaking and ‘sexy’ danc­ing, along with a few other group who chal­lenged these struc­tures in their own way.
the result in the house was a hush at the sight of the harp as it made its way to the cor­ner of the stage, a rus­tle when the audi­ence real­ized the live music was mak­ing its way though the audi­to­rium, a silence as the bod­ies, too, began mak­ing noise, and, finally, a much needed com­mu­nal gig­gle as the dance took shape and didn’t take itself too seriously.

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