A solo work created in honor of a beloved lost friend. Performed at The Junction Dance Festival 2022, in White River Junction VT. An exploration of folding, floating, falling, surrendering.
Inspired by the poem:
“A child of, say, six knows you’re not the shape she’s learned to make by drawing half along a fold, cutting, then opening.
Where do you open?
Where do you carry your dead?
There’s no locket for that – hinged, hanging on a chain that greens your throat. And the dead inside you, don’t you hear them breathing?
You must have a hole they can press their gray lips to. If you open – when you open – will we find them folded inside? In what shape?
I mean what cut shape is made whole by opening?
I mean besides the heart?”
-Maggie Smith
Choreography, Performance & Costume by Hanna Satterlee
Dramaturg support from Nicole Dagesse
Music: “Leaving” by Hania Rani
Image top:
Wings by Elizabeth Emmett
Photo by Liesje Smith
