Move back home

MOVE BACK HOME IS AN ONGOING INTERPRETIVE DANCE, PERFORMANCE ART & SOMATIC EXPLORATIONAL PROCESS.

This project brings mostly untrained dancers together to tell stories through movement and feeling. Elders and youth will work side by side, showing how they move in similar and different ways. By moving together, we hope to challenge ageism and ableism. Inspired by Faye Driscoll’s Thank You for Coming, the audience will engage through storytelling, feeling their presence in the space, and responding to prompts about HOME. After six years of planning, we are excited to share this performance with you soon.

From a neurological view, MOVE BACK HOME celebrates how movement reflects our inner feelings, whether we dance or not. Everyone’s movements grow stronger with time, practice, and focus. Our life stories are shown through how we move—physically, in places, and in relationships. Older people’s movements may seem weaker because they move slower, while young people find it harder to slow down. Motor control studies how the brain and body work together for smooth, purposeful motion. Our idea is that storytelling through improvisational and body-based movements about “moving” and “home” creates its own story. The wide age range of performers highlights that, no matter age, people seek safety and comfort inside and outside themselves. For more details, see the review by Mark Latash.

From a bio-psycho-social influence, MOVE BACK HOME is a culture building project that brings highlights a human’s innate function of homeostasis (the body's way of internally stabilizing on its own) as a tool for communication and expression. We venture to use this concept to provide an internal place of HOME in which we all return to naturally, continuously, simultaneously and individually. It shapes how we relate to ourselves and others. It guides how much and how we tell our stories to share what we need to say. Breaking down ageism and ableism by sharing time and space to understand movement naturally creates a safe place, which is essential to the idea of HOME. The stories in this project come from many people describing what HOME means to them. It could be the surroundings, the place, history, land rights, a living room, a car, a community or family spot, a quiet place, a feeling of safety, challenge, or something else. These stories will be recorded and played as the performers are on stage.

STAYED TUNED FOR UPCOMING PERFORMANCE THIS FALL

watch some practices and listen to our stories below