Up to the Elbows
Spring 2016
The development of this project was supported by High Concept Labs.
A dancer weighs, drags, swings, suspends a series of objects, a fragmented body, her own body. Up to the Elbows is a solo in which I contend with a kind of double of myself: six sand-filled sculptures that imitate the general size and shape of my body; their total sum also equals my weight. This scenario grew out of my fascination with amateur inventions for personal, wearable flying machines from the early 20th century, as well as the ways in which such inventors had to be painstakingly aware of the body’s weight and attributes when attempting to achieve something as fantastical and unlikely as flight.
