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Surface
(2005) 18 minutes Three dancers
Choreography: Philippa Kaye
Video Projection: Daniel Vatsky
Music: Medeski Martin & Wood with permission by © Blue Note from the album Combustication, 1998 and End Of The World Party
(just in case), 2004
Costumes: Megan Boyd
Lighting Design: Carolyn Wong

Mesmerizing, bizarre, and ultimately joyful, Surface considers the infinite complications that arise the closer one looks : the permeability and turbulence which comprise our boundaries. Three female dancers slide across a landscape of fabric and video-created by Daniel Vatsky, to the groovy textures of jazz trio Medeski Martin & Wood. Initially the scene is as clearly defined as a Russian Constructivist image, however, the connections made rapidly tangle into Gordian puzzles.

This work began as an investigation of fractals, and was created with dancers Megan Boyd and Lindsay Forsythe with early contributions by Missy Pfohl Smith.