four ruptures --- currently in process

Developed collaboratively, the work unfolds through 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). Each rupture marks a transformation in how bodies relate—to one another, to space, and to the pressures acting upon them. What is given, what is pulled beneath the surface, what separates and expands, and what continues to reverberate all shape the evolving architecture of the work.

The choreographic process is grounded in somatic practice, structured improvisation, and task-based movement scores informed by fluid dynamics, viscosity, and rhythmic interference. Movement emerges through reciprocal actions—leaning, pouring, pulling, resisting—where intention meets force and stability gives way to adaptation. Sound and voice draw from bioacoustic sources such as breath, pulse, and percussive gesture, while visual cartographies and spatial design map relationships between bodies, time, and environment. Non-traditional audience configurations further destabilize fixed perspectives, emphasizing proximity, pressure, and shared witnessing.

Created in response to a moment of profound social and ecological rupture, four ruptures ask how these conditions press into 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.