Murmurations
Murmurations
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choreography, photography, videography, composing
An inorganic virus shimmering in the darkened web of nothingness. Bones stretched into innate proportions, extending and feathering to become light or sturdy, toes into hooves and palms into fins. An amoebic form held fast by vines, gripping against itself. A solid form, broken or resting. Ferns unferling when met with song, swimming through the air like a hand in wind. Trees falling to rest on one another, finally touching with more than just root systems. What happens when the soft belly of a rabbit meets the whispering grass, just like feet on carpet. Animals alike yet staring at one another with a cold, unknown indifference. Trees growing in pubescent glory, stretching fingers of branches and hair of leaves to shake in a gust of wind.
The stretching and aching of an arm before it gathers itself to hold its body in flight.
The twittering and bubbling of a stream. Pausing and shushing, spiraling and gushing before meeting a rock. Bending around itself, joining and regrouping. Sudden rushing and realization of suspension, before hurtling oneself back towards brethren. The slow dripping of an inlet presented with a river’s roar. The arc of consciousness in liquid form, frozen or sprinting along.The waving and grasping of water's fingers, wrapping and grazing itself over and over and over. A break.
The moment of pure suspension sandwiched between a moment of impact and belief. The reflection of eye highlights in the beams of a monster of unknown proportion.
A nose, snout, tongue, meeting flesh, a hand, a tooth, a foot. The ripping sensation of death and fear met with the spreading and glistening skin of another. Backtracking and meeting soil with knees and feet, becoming small among your surroundings. Moments of stillness while everything else moves around, for you to hear.
A leaf spiraling from its holder, slowly whirling to the ground to become the soil that its mother feeds upon, shelter for an ant, and the potentiality of another. Grasses arcing and blading through air, rustling and falling against one another to rise up again. The animal form of a body stretched to its limits, tendons and ligaments fighting against the restraints of the brain.To test oneself against the hard ground, resisting rest.
Reaching and grasping the ground to gain control of oneself in a new environment. Meeting and meeting and meeting the ground, settling and rolling and unpiecing. Breaking to exist, to die, to rebound into another.
The stretching and aching of an arm before it gathers itself to hold its body in flight.
The twittering and bubbling of a stream. Pausing and shushing, spiraling and gushing before meeting a rock. Bending around itself, joining and regrouping. Sudden rushing and realization of suspension, before hurtling oneself back towards brethren. The slow dripping of an inlet presented with a river’s roar. The arc of consciousness in liquid form, frozen or sprinting along.The waving and grasping of water's fingers, wrapping and grazing itself over and over and over. A break.
The moment of pure suspension sandwiched between a moment of impact and belief. The reflection of eye highlights in the beams of a monster of unknown proportion.
A nose, snout, tongue, meeting flesh, a hand, a tooth, a foot. The ripping sensation of death and fear met with the spreading and glistening skin of another. Backtracking and meeting soil with knees and feet, becoming small among your surroundings. Moments of stillness while everything else moves around, for you to hear.
A leaf spiraling from its holder, slowly whirling to the ground to become the soil that its mother feeds upon, shelter for an ant, and the potentiality of another. Grasses arcing and blading through air, rustling and falling against one another to rise up again. The animal form of a body stretched to its limits, tendons and ligaments fighting against the restraints of the brain.To test oneself against the hard ground, resisting rest.
Reaching and grasping the ground to gain control of oneself in a new environment. Meeting and meeting and meeting the ground, settling and rolling and unpiecing. Breaking to exist, to die, to rebound into another.
Murmurations Final.mp4This piece explores the innate relationship between the human body and being and nature. Mumurations explores feelings of disconnection in spaces despite the immediate relationships that are drawn between ourselves and others. How animals exist as different representations of ourselves, and how we ourselves are animals. Highlighting the immediate connections between the human body and landscape, nature, and how each offers beautiful and detailed lessons. Murmurations makes use of intrinsic movement to draw parallels between existing structures and “natural” movement, inviting the viewer into a new world. Utilizing projected elements, the stage is transformed to become something else entirely with deliberate choices of accompanying instrumental and sound to develop this environment. Recorded selections of movement also enhance these goals, drawing viewers to the intentionality of movement and form.
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