ANICONIC is a three-part interdisciplinary dance performance negotiating materials, images, and a sense of place.
A central inquiry is the conceptual, religious, and personal ideas of the iconic (especially human representation). Here, the work is articulated by the terrain of still tableaus and their ability to reflect on precarious notions of a “soul” or ideas of “presence”. In a process of image making and unmaking, the work acts in an uncertain space, questioning the object quality of human relationships and the life of objects.
A basic premise is that sometimes such things as a brick, a chair, water, wood, or a lamp, may have a more pronounced sense of a “soul” then a human being. Here, the setting of a scene, the given environment or landscape and its makeup, is filled with questions of presence, memory, and an unsettled occupancy.
As a discursive project, it is composed of three distinct movement choreographies, recorded text, video, and installation that question the context for a body, its images, and its living trace.
