STAGE WORK

Stuff Your Eye
SUBSCRIPT
From The Outside
bear(v.)
UNDERTIME
UNRAVEL
Stand or be Stood

EVENINGS

Stuff Your Eyes

Stuff Your Eyes (2024) explores the intricate dance between humanity and technology. This piece navigates the profound intimacy and significance of human connection, while juxtaposing the isolating impact of advancing technology on our society. As characters spiral into their individual realms of altered reality, a poignant yearning for genuine human connection emerges, magnifying the significance of touch in a world where its absence amplifies its importance. Stuff Your Eyes paints a vivid portrait of how our relentless quest for knowledge can blur the lines between reality and perception, inviting you to question the very essence of our digital existence.

This work was a commission by Gibney Dance as a part of the DoublePLUS Program - Director: Nigel Campbell. Dual Rivet was curated by Kyle Abraham.

(30 min)

SUBSCRIPT

SUBSCRIPT (2023) is an evening length dance performance based off the company’s short film, IN CAPSULE. This new work follows four characters through a non-linear narrative that explores the concepts of reality vs perception. The piece questions how much of our lives are controlled for us and how much control we truly have. This is an hour long experience with dynamic movement, complex partnering and sensitive interpersonal moments. Do we ever fully understand the structures we are subscribing to?

This work is a live, evening length expansion of the short film “IN CAPSULE” released by Dual Rivet in March 2022.

(45 min)

From The Outside

From the Outside (2022) is an evening length performance examining our emotional, physical and mental states of struggle in a time when, for many, stability has been challenging to find. As beneficiaries of regular access to physical contact, Dual Rivet aims to facilitate healing from what will be a year of touch starvation with a study on how individual stability depends on having a support system that cannot be solely virtual. They hope to reflect with audiences on life in quarantine and to identify and honor our available support systems. This piece was originally created on multiple floors in which the dancers and audience travel in 2022.

This work is a live, evening length expansion of the short film “Rabbithole” released by Dual Rivet in February 2021.

(50 min)

bear(v.)

Bear(v.) (2020), an evening dance piece that explores experiences and memories buried within us. The piece follows an individual and their ability to accept and confront these challenges.

This work is a live, evening length expansion of the short film “bear(v.)” released by Dual Rivet in July 2020.

(27 min)

SHORT PIECES

UNDERTIME

UNDERTIME (2023) is a piece originally set on 15 Barnard/Columbia University students. Set in an office space, the piece delves into the pressures of “time” and the ways in which it effects our perception - blurring the lines between past, present, and future. UNDERTIME prompts audiences to reflect on their own relationship with time and its profound impact on our existence.

In 2024, UNDERTIME was set and reworked on Sam Houston State University.

(15 min)

UNRAVEL

UNRAVEL (2022) is a piece about a relationship and the inevitable parting of two individuals. The piece starts joyous and playful and journeys to a more weighted and longing state with movement gliding along the floor in a beautiful, sweeping duet. Even in their unraveling, there is beauty. They navigate the chaos with grace, embracing the inevitable parting with bittersweet acceptance.

(10 min)

Stand or be Stood

Stand or be Stood (2019) is a piece about letting go. We see the two characters begin to shed the idea of dependency as they struggle to stand on their own. It ends in a celebratory and dynamic play of support and persistence.

(9 min)