Photograph: Iki Nakagawa

Photograph: Iki Nakagawa

 

chorea

Performed December 12, 2019 Movement Research at The Judson, NYC

Choreography/Performance: Elisabeth Motley

Through the prism of my neurodivergence and disability, “chorea” crip’s the body as a collective instrument of cultural understanding, misunderstanding, and uncertainty. This practice examines the variance of non-compulsory embodiments and how neurodivergence generates original choreography. chorea trespasses bodily order and allows fitfulness to spill out into public, exposing choreomania in a political/relational model. This work sample is representative of a first section in a larger work in progress. It has been supported as a 2019-2021 Movement Research Artist in Residence and through a Brooklyn Arts Exchange Parent Space Grant and US-UK Fulbright Scholar Award.

Dramaturg: Cory Nakasue

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Photographs Iki Nakagawa

Photographs Iki Nakagawa

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chorea

Supported as a 2019-2021 Movement Research Artist in Residence, a US-UK Fulbright Scholar Award recipient (2018-2019), and a Brooklyn Arts Exchange Parent Space Grant.

Performance/Choreography: Elisabeth Motley

Dramaturg: Cory Nakasue

 
Performance: Elisabeth Motley Dramaturgy: Cory Nakasue This work is an account of the fluidity of identity through movement, the body, and our interpretations of what a body can or cannot do. My personal experience as a body in the worlds of disability, dance, academia, and medical treatment inform this exploration of how movement makes meaning that influences societal attitudes and cultural norms. In my performance practice I experiment with movement that resides in my bodies history, explode myths around able-ism and question the social gaze.
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