Columbia Chasing (2010)

March 9th &10th at 8pm
March 11th at 5pm
Dance Mission Theater
24th Street @ Mission Street
in San Francisco, CA.

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choreography: brittany brown ceres

Music: "A&E" and "Voicething" by Alison Goldfrapp & Will Gregory; "Water Vapor" by Aomeba; "The Nurse Who Loved Me" originally by Ken Andrews of Failure, performed by The Section Quartet.
Costumes: Kate Mitchell
Dancers: Joseph Copley, Cari Delaplane, Claudia Hubiak, Miranda Mallard and Becca Rozell.

With special thanks for signifigant developmental contributions to:
Yukie Fujimoto, Roel Seeber, Anna Greenberg, Kirstin Damrow, Jenny Ward, Suzanne Beahrs, Rozelle Polido, Stanford University's Bent Spoon Dance Collective, SF School of the Arts, Joe Landini at the Garage (AIR Residency 2010), and the many generous kickstarter donors.

The river continues-- it does not sleep, but it devours ravenously. It nurtures, but it does not care. It simply exists in the thoroughness of movement. There is no judgment, only growth and functionality. Is it ruthlessness, inconsideration, oblivion? Or is it forgiven in its naturalness, in its inevitability? Maybe we understand the endlessness because there is no mechanism for stopping. In contrast, the damage we create is from decision, not biological unavoidability. We are destructive to one another on purpose, for even the slightest difference, not inevitably… or is it inevitable? Human fear and confusion facilitates destruction, yet the river knows nothing of judgment or difference. Wash out the human in me and let me be like the river.

Through the process of abstraction, blending personal confusion to propel healing, regardless of logical understanding, we reveal the stab of shock and the spark of surprise are one in the same action. Whether through devastation or elation, the immediate state of disbelief renders us motionless. In exploring queer families, the state of constant change for LGBT communities and the purposefulness of the rushing river, our work celebrates the things that profoundly surprise us. The body knows when it is finished grieving. It becomes lighter. It flows again.