VARIATIONS is a collection of thirty short dances from the past, in the present, and for the future. These dances from here and there find a common place of existence in an ode to our ability to adapt; to the beauty of inseparability; and to a lesson in learning to move together again.
This work revisits and merges dances and movement sequences that Lo Fi Dance Theory created through various company research periods, group trainings, exchanges, and workshops, and is a study of splicing, pasting, and reconstruction, with a focus on not only how our interpretations of these past explorations overlap and enfold each other, but on where they generate friction, and where the disjunctions of the juxtapositions of past, present, and future arise. These dances, or variations, as we call them in this context, share a common choreographic grammar, which allows for them to be performed in any order while exchanges and communication arise throughout the piece, giving the infrastructure of the work room for the unexpected. Made of resonances, and with relationality at its core, VARIATIONS exists in a constant flux of assembling and disassembling the collective through collaborative listening and response. As dancers come together, disperse, and fall in and out of sync they prompt us to ask, Where have we been? Where are we? Where are we going?
