writing and performance

The Jenkins Farm Project transforms the real stories of eight siblings born and raised on a family farm in rural North Carolina between 1922 and 1938 into a dance-theater installation about home, family, memory, and mental illness against the backdrop of 20th century U.S. history. (Beserra Dance Theater)

As an original cast member, I investigate states of performance, the edges of memory, history, and body through performance and a written document. By investigating the task of rendering my performance of a multidimensional dancetheatre work into a linear document, I trace the dancer's task of organizing and emphasizing multiple embodiments and suggest ways that dancers can use writing as a means to reflect upon and reconstitute dance-work, efforts otherwise romantically dismissed as solely ephemeral.