CHOREOGRAPHY
where we were | have been | will be
An interdisciplinary work directed by Soph Cardinal (they/them), in collaboration with their performers. Shifting boundaries between movement, film, sound score, and visual art, this piece invites the audience to reconcile their relationships to transformation, grief, and discomfort, to sit in the spaces in-between.
This piece contains personal recordings from a hospital stay and graphics depicting flashing lights.
Direction, Editing, and Movement Generation: Soph Cardinal (they/them)
Performance and Movement Generation: Grace Hurley, Terra Killpack-Knutsen,
Salanieta Malohifo’ou, Keily Tafiti, Em Zinn
Cinematography: TWIG Media Lab
Sound Score: lim | I | nal by Aspen Tracey and Soph Cardinal, Houseofpsychoticwomn and Etienne by Ethel Cain, and the voices of people we carry with us
Costume Design: Soph Cardinal, in collaboration with performers
Fabric Artist: Salanieta Malohifo’ou
Projection Design: Soph Cardinal
Projection Tech: Benjamin Sandberg
Lighting Design: William Peterson, Soph Cardinal
Lighting Design and Projection: William Peterson, Benjamin Sandberg, Soph Cardinal
The Thesis Committee, who have walked alongside me in all my states of in-betweenness:
Kiri Avelar, Molly Heller, Sara Pickett
Choreographer's Note:
angel veins
lost halted trusting eyes closed capture it between patience sparkles sober small mosaic dis connected crowd limitless
eye crinkles circle i remember it
exhale pacing watching silly conversations
proud managing lim purples with strangers
savouring of life front porch willis by the book grieving mediator sprouty grounded
merely less mobile experience creation
blooming secure copycat in sky love
un ignorant cover bliss finding curious
apologetic standing cooking before
stroke nal precious things
wound big thursday carry
cycles