Dark Moon
Collective Peristalsis
Research
Archive
2017-2019
Originally created as a hand-bound book, this generative archive holds our ideas, practices and reflections.
Sites of Digestion
These first 12 collages were created as a part of my Research as Action in Montpellier, France to show how my dance practice proposes a way to be in and reflect on places. My home, studios we work in, Old Kensington, Philadelphia, and Paris, France, are mixed with rehearsal photographs.
How does a gut tube practice teach me how to move in spaces and places?
It Starts with Your Mouth, and other small treasures
Here you will find digital versions of small handmade books developed from our collaborative practices and my research of locating the poetics of the digestive tract.
"Dark Moon allowed me space to consider a great many things-dance as spectatorship, themes of pack mentality and societal rules, and the politics of having engaged bodies in space."
Their easeful, exploring bodies occupy a somatic space upon which the party music forms a light tension. I watch their pelvises shift and gyrate, thinking of the intestines beneath.