Body of Text is a learning and research project funded by a Discovery Grant from the Pew Center for Arts And Heritage. The project was conceived to move us towards a new method of working with its ensemble, one driven by the intersection and overlap of verbal and physical meaning. This project focused on research time for us to think about formal approaches to language in performance and build a bank of shared knowledge among the company of dancers. We envision this process leading to a new ways of working and to the start of layered dance-based work in which multiple narrative threads are poetically woven together — harmonizing, contrasting, colliding, and co-existing to form new meta-narratives.
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