Stimulated by my collaborations in choreography, I created these drawings using a custom-made rubber stamp of my own body as a place-keeper for the dancers. This allows me to choreograph movement on the page as a personal dance notation.
The twisting lines that encircle, connect and umbilicate the figures recall the cables and cords that litter a stage, as well as the electrical wires that both energize and clutter contemporary life.
Some of the drawings form sequences, as in pre-cinematic still photography, while others remember live performances. Movement is interrupted and contained, as in a camera’s lens. Scanning and inverting the images recreates the context in which the work is often seen—at night, in performance venues, and under theatrical light.
