vis-à-vis
vis-à-vis is the collaboration between contemporary dance artists Kaitlyn Bishop and Erica Saucedo
The collaboration was born from the artists’ shared interests in illustrating their female narratives through movement and theater. In an effort to relive their pasts and rewrite their futures as leading women, Erica and Kate generate content through guided meditation, improvisation, and a sincere trust in the strength and responsibilities of sisterhood.
Powersuites
Vis-à-vis’ ungovernable tribute to political weight, Powersuites allows the less purposeful stuff of power and influence to get jacked up and platformed—front and center. Drawing on the fragile forces of fashion, ad-campaigns, and fitness culture, two female dances throw themselves in the ring to touch the falsified contradictions of pyramid structures.
Para Femina
Commissions: Danspace Project, Arts on Site, Triskelion Arts Center
"Para Femina" is a series of mental, physical, and emotional training modules calling vis-á-vis to prepare for a future promised for females. A study on all the things we can and cannot do as women, the duet interrogates our fears, our mistakes, and our desire for gold. Each round turns up the dial on the competitive charge between women in an effort to diffuse and distill the duties of sisterhood.
Altær
At the altar of sleeplessness and solitude, who better to lift us from our knees than a secret version of ourselves? How do we beckon her and how does she respond when she is no longer alone?
This work follows the storyline of two entities as they conjure resiliency and endurance, in solidarity and solitude, wrinkling the lines of time to tell their stories of lost love. The pair test a technique for personal growth through the creation of super alteregos. As they cultivate these characters, they also strive to find room for one another in moments of hardship and humor.
Questioning the rituals of healing, the two protagonists engage one another in a dance of mixed tapes, bed sheets, Patsy Cline and watermelon fields.
Brunch
Commission: Westfest - 2017.04.29 - All Over WestBeth