BEACH SESSIONS X ANONYMOUS

When Sasha, the director of Beach Sessions, and I spoke about the choreographer’s name Anonymous, we spoke about it being really disorienting, with both a feeling of everyone and no one at the same time. They were to perform a piece entitled ‘Fun Young Gods’, which is an anthem, a ritual, a placebo, a conjuring, a clinical study, and a blatant exploitation of society's obsession with fun, youth, and holiness. When I think about dance, I think a lot about its relationship to ritual and in turn the metaphysical. This all brought me back to thinking about Maya Deren’s films which intertwine dance, ritual, routine, and the illusiveness of identity and time. I first thought about using the mirrors as something that we could play with to cover the face and also reflect the face of the other dancer that maybe played with the expression of the rock hysteria which was the goal of the dance piece.

I used the mirrors to play with the sense of time and identity by reflecting other things in the surrounding such as the sky, or sunlight. I wanted the mirrors to become a beacon of light, or another part of the work that creates the feeling of disorientation. I used four mirrors, two are 10 inch and two are 12 inches. I put handles on two of them and the other two could be used to lay against different surfaces or play with in other ways. Adding the handles allowed the performers to cover the face and move the body as well as use in other ways around the body and space.

Final presentation shown on Beach Sessions website, large image published in New York Times, and printed in large scale zine.

http://www.beachsessionsdanceseries.com/anonymous

Final presentation shown on Beach Sessions website, large image published in New York Times, and printed in large scale zine.

http://www.beachsessionsdanceseries.com/anonymous