Hardcore Dance Retrospective
In collaboration with Leone Anne Reeves
2006-2007
Growing up in Fresno, I found myself attending one too many hardcore shows. I discovered a dance that, while typically performed solo within a carefully demarcated circle of spectators, contained astounding phrases of synchronized group movement. We we're interested in how to appropriate those movements, re-contextualize them and choreograph a tightly scripted dance that has a loosely contained anarchistic energy. We, like many of those hardcore dancers are not formally trained in vernacular dances. We do, however, teach this dance to mostly everyone and typically offer it as a gift.
{To perform a hardcore dance retrospective}
1. Pick up the pennies
2. Make a windmill
3. Punch the air
4. Too much metal for one hand
5. Cutsman by Horse the Band
2006-2007
Growing up in Fresno, I found myself attending one too many hardcore shows. I discovered a dance that, while typically performed solo within a carefully demarcated circle of spectators, contained astounding phrases of synchronized group movement. We we're interested in how to appropriate those movements, re-contextualize them and choreograph a tightly scripted dance that has a loosely contained anarchistic energy. We, like many of those hardcore dancers are not formally trained in vernacular dances. We do, however, teach this dance to mostly everyone and typically offer it as a gift.
{To perform a hardcore dance retrospective}
1. Pick up the pennies
2. Make a windmill
3. Punch the air
4. Too much metal for one hand
5. Cutsman by Horse the Band
