Appropriations: Excavation of Movement

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The new choreographic work Appropriations: Excavation of Movement by Mariella Nestora / YELP DANCE Co. examines the forms that adorn red-figure and black-figure vases. The choreography does not represent the past, but retrieves it into the present as a dynamic field of questions and new narratives. As a mechanism of appropriation, repetition, and reformulation, it stirs and inscribes memories, rendering time fluid and porous. This excavation of movement takes place in the here and now, in constant interaction with live music.

Is movement form or energy, action or framework, embodiment or transformation, positive or negative space, sensation or thought, source or echo, perception or transmission, metabolism or projection, reproduction or commentary? The dance performance Appropriations: Excavation of Movement confronts time as a fluid condition, where past, present, and future are not separate entities, but intertwined manifestations of the same experience. What do we choose to place in the background and what at the center of our attention? Every exploration is an appropriation.