rite
hd color video with sound, 4 min. 10 sec., 2014
Two women dance to a truncated score of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. The storyline of this classic modernist ballet centers on the sacrifice of a young woman who is killed by a group of elder men as part of a ritual commemorating the rebirth of the seasons. The dancers enact this role with vigorous intensity, subverting its implications of passivity and victimization.
Together with: Ana Mendez and Constance Strickland