FISTFUL 

FISTFUL (2024, Northwest Dance Project)  is a dance for four performers focused on the concept of indeterminacy. Throughout our research, we have landed on the concept of “the unknown” as a strategy that feels appropriate for the times we live in. Each time I begin to make a dance I am confronted with questions of utility as well as questions of gratitude. What can dance accomplish in such a chaotic and constantly fraying world? What changes can we, members of the artist class, make to our approach that better align us with a world we would like to see? What forces (both institutional and societal) work against these goals? What can we learn from these frequently oppositional forces and where is the best place for us to put our energy? This piece is accompanied (mainly) by the emotively political music of ANOHNI.  Her work is agonisingly sincere and we felt as though that was as good a place as any to try to answer these questions.