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Attend: To Be Present
Tend: To apply oneself to the care of/ watch over
Tender: (adj) demanding careful and sensitive handling
(verb) To present for acceptance

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Karlsgatan 2 is a building and an architectural arcade. The public entrance is two sets of doors running through the center, offering the public a covered walkway cutting through a city block. Sitting in the museum café you can see people on their phone dashing to an errand, ducking in with a baby stroller to avoid the rain, many do not even turn their heads realizing the divide they are treading on.

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As an oral historian, memory is my material and interviewing is my craft. I ask someone to tell me of themselves and then I listen, riding the current of a conversation I’m co-constructing, both of us boat, rower and river all at once. And then what happened? And what was that like?  

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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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