portal
2024
Workshop series and HD Video, 04:41
Edited by Hansen Francisco, Music by Bccording
Performers:Sophia Bonemer, Danielle Knott, Emiley Pegley, Maria Reinke, Tori Sidaway, Gwendolyn Vaughn
Special thanks to Jessica Rajko, Wayne State University Department of Theatre & Dance, Wayne State University Department of Art & Art History, The earth
PORTAL was an academic-year-long project engaging 6 undergraduate dance students at Wayne State University in a series of workshops and video shoots focused on climate change, environmental grief, and connection with the natural world. The goal was to engage dance practices through the lens of embodiment, allowing us to feel and transform difficult material through acts of conscious movement. The footage we co-created is combined with original video content I gathered while backpacking and traveling the summer prior, when the project idea came to me.
greenscreen video shoot Rouge Park video shootportal, video stillstill from video footage by dancer Gwen Vaughnmovement exercise from the workshop presentation