four ruptures --- currently in process

four ruptures is a contemporary dance project inspired by Terry Tempest Williams's Erosion: Essays of Undoing. The work examines the body as a vulnerable, unstable, and continually shifting landscape, asking how bodies endure, adapt, and reorganize themselves in response to change.

The work is structured around four distinct physical states: something about sap (accumulation and residue), undertow (submersion and unseen force), drift–rift (dispersal and displacement), and ec(h)o (resonance and recomposition). Together, these states trace an evolving ecology of the body, transforming how performers relate to one another, to space, and to the pressures surrounding them.

The choreographic process is grounded in somatic practice, structured improvisation, and task-based movement research. We have developed the work through deep listening exercises, Authentic Movement, cycles of moving, writing, and speaking, contact scores rooted in leaning, pouring, and pulling, spatial relationship games inspired by The Game of Life, and collective movement phrases generated from individual gestures. Informed by fluid dynamics, viscosity, and rhythmic interference, these practices cultivate reciprocal relationships between performers, allowing movement, sound, and spatial composition to evolve together. Sound is drawn from bioacoustic sources while visual projections and spatial design function as evolving cartographies of relationships between bodies, time, and environment.

Grounded in this choreographic inquiry, four ruptures explores how social and ecological ruptures register in the material body—through blood flow and breath, nervous systems under strain, and the quiet labor of intimacy and care. Rather than seeking resolution, the work dwells in transformation, proposing erosion as a form of deep listening and renewal: a way of staying with what remains, what adapts, and what continues to move through us.