Water Web
The common element in this diverse collaboration is water. Water is the tie holding our artistic processes together, through this echoing the way it holds our cells, our very being together. It is winding about us, connecting us in ways we expected [we are learning, moving, researching, being together] and also in ways that are entirely unexpected [science informs movement and movement informs science]. On a surface level, these new ways of connecting and bridging areas of knowledge should seem like an anomaly, dance and science combining in an extraordinarily new way. But innately this feels that this is the way it is meant to be. Both science and dance stem from the earth [an act of being] and a desire for knowledge. The mode of research is not important, what is vital is the expansion of perception and understanding. We are continuing to uncover this truth as we refine and inform each others ideas about Body of Water and begin to enter the process of finishing this aspect of the production.
I see this collaborative process as a small demonstration, a tested theory of what we hope to achieve within the wider community. We are diverse; dancers, designers, biologists, chemists, doctors, writers, teachers, students, artists, researchers. We represent a small portion of the audience we intend to reach and we have come together to work and create together, just as we hope to inspire our audience to do. The more I ponder our goals for this production, I realize that the only way we will accomplish all of our goals of change, education, inspiration, and empowerment is by identifying ourselves as witnesses to the earth and inviting our audience members to join us in respecting and revering the creation we are fortunate enough to possess a responsibility for. We are working together to form bonds within the community, similar in a way to Oxygen and Hydrogen atoms that bond together to create H2O molecules which then create chains of unity, chains of community. Only by extending our hands and knowledge to create our own hydrogen bonds with the bodies around us can we hope to permeate the world with goals of betterment for all beings.
Deveny Miles
February 2015
Intern for Dry Run Studio “Bridge” project
Photo credit to the Luther College Photo Bureaua
