I am, here; Here with us; Where we find ourselves (2024)

Choreographer Stacy Matthew Spence, in collaboration with the artists
Performers Joanna Kotze, Will Noling, Stacy Matthew Spence, Hsiao-jou Tang
Singer/musician Charlotte Jacobs
Percussionist Raf Vertessen
Costumer Athena Kokoronis
Originating Performer Tim Bendernagel

How do we find ourselves? How do we find our place? How do we find each other?

This dance, in triptych form, explores ideas of self, impulse, and sharing.

Spence’s work often explores the exchange between person and environment. This involves playful interactions and movement generated in response to the places he may find himself—studio, home, as well as public spaces. Presently, he brings his attention to the internal space of “me”—as a personal environment to be outwardly created, expressed, occupied and shared.

Spence asked his collaborators to take a journey from their internal finding, to the external expression and wondered how they would bump up against, allow for and possibly join/accommodate/revel in each other’s individual selves.