"material air" (2024) is a guided improvisation score exploring suffocation through four physicalized experiences. Through collaboration with the performers, the film demonstrates different relationships to physical and emotional constriction, embodied through tactile materials: string, bubblewrap, cellophane, and aluminum foil. The movement visits feelings of being bound, decorated, insulated, hurt, and shielded by the materials. As the film progresses, we watch the dancers react to their own restraint as well as their clashing interactions with others' materials against their own. This flux between tension and comfort is created in the dancers' responses of being harmed or protected by one another, finding the line between invasion and safety.

Performers: Faith Bender, Gryff Mendonssa, Madison Pasquin, Gianna Torma

Music: Kierstyn Edore//FKA Twigs

 

Lighting: Lauren Bonavitacola