Welcome
This website is an invitation to collaboratively think, move, and create with our investigations of Choreographies of Disaster. This process has been intermittent, intimate, incoherent, and essential. As artists we have swayed in and out of it, bringing in our own points of view and needs to negotiate and re-figure how to work alongside each other’s changing circumstances. We have most often been in different locations, especially during COVID, and have found how to enliven the virtual space between us into one that allows us to listen to the movements of each others’ places as we move in our own spaces.
We have worked with the ways that dancing allows us to move across time and space to connect with each other in the absences, iterations, and aftermaths caused by the various disasters we face both differently and together. We have found ways to support, inspire, and evolve our process forward not in any clear developmental path, but as a manifestation of what is present in our histories, our practices and our different positionalities. It is a practice that embodies disturbances, thresholds of possibility, moments of balance during destabilizing events, processing extreme losses, generating creative acts that question, and move uneasily and confidently…
We are eager to share these practices with you in the hopes that they encourage other kinds of companionship and restorative practices to work alongside the on-goingness of radical impacts to our culture, our climate, our connectedness and our political futures.
-- Javier Cardona, Alejandra Martorell and Jennifer Monson
Funding sources:
Illinois State Council on the Arts Fellowship 2019
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign College of Fine and Applied Arts Matching funds grant
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
New York State Council on the Arts
Support for the project and our expression of gratitude to those along the way:
Miriam Jimenez Román and Juan Flores in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico
guarapo La cura and María Judith Oliveros in Bayamón, Puerto Rico
Casa Taft and Marina Moscoso in Santurce, Puerto Rico
All the interlocutors for the public sharings
nibia pastrana santiago for early collaboration
website design by Mary Kate Ford