Cheek Tight Against Stone

“Cheek Tight Against Stone”. This work is a dancetheater work inspired by Albert Camus’ “The Myth of Sisyphus”. It uses Sisyphus and his boulder as a metaphor and jumping-off-point for ruminating on life's relentless and repetitive cycles. 

 

The absurdist musings of Camus and the surrealist storytelling of Haruki Murakami inspire me. I am especially drawn to Murakami’s use of the dream world as a setting for reflection and a vantage point to (re)view your place in the world.

 

“Cheek” uses a cinderblock as the physical manifestation of “the boulder” and I hope to expand the use of cinderblocks to create a brutalist and surreal set. The movement begins slowly and meditatively and builds to wildness and exhaustion. I visualize choreography through affecting images and movement patterns within the space and think about building and releasing tension in the way a great drama can. I am using psychedelic rock that is interested in similar themes.

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Cheek Tight Against Stone has been performed at ESTIA Fest in Queens, Triskelion Arts in Brooklyn and is in further development as part of The Green Space's Digging In Group.