Still above from "Slow Shapes" by Kersti Jan Werdal.
ABOUT:
East Coast based dance performer, choreographer, and teacher. Graduated high school in 2008 from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Completed a B.A. at Columbia University in 2023. Trained with Merce Cunningham as well as whirled with the dervishes of the Mevlevi Order. Worked with Marina Abramović at MoMA in 2010, as well as on numerous projects with Robert Wilson, and was a member of the Michael Clark Company for performances at the Tate Modern in 2011. Authorized to teach, stage, and perform Yvonne Rainer's Trio A. Currently on faculty at the Washington School of Ballet.
Recent collaborations include "Taboo and Transgression" with Michael Taussig et al. and “Remembering and Dismembering Trio A, with Excerpts from Peter Schjeldahl’s ’77 Sunset Me’,” a duet between Rainer and Bailey by Yvonne Rainer.
Past collaboration.
"Her practice is equally about confounding notions of space and time. She employs a language of what she calls shapes, which are just that: intensely held postures that, even if they sometimes resemble yoga asanas, more often render her thoroughly alien, simultaneously ancient and cyborg-like. She contracts her body into impossibly small, curved poses, rolling inward instinctively like a beetle, or holds an expansive posture with steely strength." (Review from TheWire)
Choreographic and writing projects are ongoing. Some can be viewed here. For the text from "The Dance Warm-Up" published in the form of a manual in 2013, please send an email.
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