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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.
New work with dance ceres, swirling in the consistency of the river’s flow, will develop in three stages: the company will complete a space residency at the garage from Feb-May, students at Stanford University will perform a draft in February, and advanced students at SF School of the arts will study the same themes for their spring concert. Columbia Chasing, studying the defining differences between the flow of a river and the fluidity of the individual, will highlight our strengths as a dance company. 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.
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