The Field, part 1 2024

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Choreography: Amelia Heintzelman, Leah Fournier
Text and Dramaturgy: Tess Michaelson

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Through attunement to presence, duration, and energetic tension, the work imagines an embodied field of poetic resonance that plays at a line of interpretative decipherability. Performers embark on an extended deconstruction of epic narrative iconography: the showdown, the rustler, the disillusioned lover. Each performer becomes an evolving multiplicity of characters, intertwining the dramatic and iconic with the mundane. Characters alter the psychic texture of the field as they exchange coded premonitions and distorted memories. The work culminates as a triangulation of competing interpretations, ownership over the metaphorical field, that, in the end, refuses possession at all and, instead, offers new possibilities for being together and apart at once.

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Movement Research at the Judson Church

New York, NY 

January 2024

 

PRESS: 

The Work-in-Progress by Tess Michaelson

for the Brooklyn Rail

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