Cavity 2024

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In 2022, I underwent emergency surgery for a ruptured ovarian cyst— a violence inside my body invisible to everyone except my surgeon. Two years later, I still obsess over this detonation: the ignition, butchering, anesthesia, absorption, and eventual return. Anchored by two soloists, myself and cellist Dorothy Carlos, "Cavity" emerges through fables of speculative physiology, with scores for dancing and music based in states of turbulence to reconstitute a sense of interiority. "Cavity" is a place where I have found a clearing, where I can map what I don’t know, where I can dance the self.

Music: Dorothy Carlos
Set: Val Karuskevich
Lighting: Shana Crawford
Dramaturgy: Sophia Parker
Costumes: Ayano Elson

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Cavity was supported by a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant and through a residency at Brooklyn Peace Center through Little by Little, curated by Bella Thorpe-Woods/ 

 

Pageant 
Brooklyn, NY 

December 5th and 6th, 2024 

Draftwork at Danspace Project 
New York, NY 
October 26th, 2024 

Kestrels Studio Showing

Brooklyn, NY

June 26th, 2024

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PRESS: 

"What happens in the pause? PAGEANT Presents: Cavity by Amelia Heintzelman with Dorothy Carlos" by Sophia Parker for CultureBot

 

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