Things That Make Us an evening of new dance theater by Molly Lynch-Clark and Lailye Weidman. With her multidisciplinary ensemble cast, Lynch-Clark has devised an imagined space with science fiction-like flair. Facing an unknown future, the work asks, “What if a society were organized around shared humanity?” Weidman’s iterative solo project Other Refrains wrestles with the weight of ancestry and lineage, utilizing family gestures and embodied memories as a map to move through present times. Through storytelling, dance, and vocalization, Weidman weaves threads from her own family, while reaching toward collective reckoning with the things that make us. While drawing from distinct practices and aesthetics, both artists combine movement and text, engaging the idiom of “dance theater” from a playful and experimental approach. They both craft performances that are refreshingly relatable and direct, while also embracing visceral and unexpected languages of the body.
Molly Lynch-Clark is a choreographer, performer, and educator of dance based in Western Massachusetts. She is currently on faculty at UMass Amherst and Keene State College, where she teaches modern dance technique, experiential anatomy, composition, and research studies.
Lailye Weidman (MFA, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign) is a choreographer, educator, and queer parent raising a feisty toddler in Western Massachusetts. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Hampshire College, where she combines improvisation, somatics, and mindfulness with a focus on the politics of movement and embodied action. Through multiple projects over the past two decades, Lailye has been looking at the forces that move us and asking how we respond to those forces. Her work has been shown on the East and West coasts, the Midwest, and Europe.
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