AN ARRAY-

In 2012, I embarked on a solo project called “All I Need Is Here” that worked with emotion and affect as kinesthetic input. I was curious about how the effect of being seen–and ‘affect’ as a personal response to environment–might become sensory material for live composition. With “An Array”, 10+ years later, I’d like to investigate the opposite pathway: How might every and any sensation lead to an emotion, to affect, to thoughts or imagination? How can I use my skills as a dancer to notice, craft and be surprised by sensation as it emerges out of kinesthetic experience and into my inner world of imagination and feeling? What is the broadest possible array of experiences that I can conjure and explore with a defined framework (time and space), or before an audience?

HOLDET BAG

Maya Dalinsky is a dancer and translator working with live composition for the stage (aka performance improvisation).