Performing Tech / Live Artery @ New York Live Arts, January 2022
MAXlive 2021: The Neuroverse @ New York Live Arts, November 2021
Lizardly is a live, mixed reality play created by Kat Mustatea and Heidi Boisvert that explores AI, environmental collapse, and interspeciality. The staging employs VR, MoCap and Machine Learning to create a vivid portrayal of hybrid humans in a posthuman world. Lizardly premiered at MAXLive 2021: The Neuroverse, co-produced by New York Live Arts. Choreography by Pauline Jennings and Joshua Lacourse.
]]>An immersive four-channel video and sound installation about borders, restriction of movement, and family/community life. Its subject is Derby Line, Vermont and Stanstead, Quebec, two rural towns that are divided by the US/Canadian border. This small community has recently become better known, because immigrants affected by the US travel ban are reuniting with family members at its library. The library, uniquely situated in both the US and Canada, is one of the few places on the continent where those living in the US with visas that do not allow return-entry, can reunite with family members who are not allowed to enter the US, because they are citizens of countries on the US travel ban list. n e i g h b o r i n g | t o w n s is by Heather Theresa Clark and Pauline Jennings with sound composition by Sean Clute, cinematography by Elizabeth Rossano, and choreography created and performed by Pauline Jennings in collaboration with Joshua Lacourse.
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Through a hybrid art form, movement poetry, The Random Site Series experiments with photography and site-specific movement to prompt the question: How does one year feel? Through personal reflection and a fierce dive into familiar landscapes including self, home, and surrounding geography, I challenge myself and viewers alike to consider pursuing adventure, practicing curiosity, and making discoveries within the seemingly mundane.
In “The Air Connects Us, ” a three-channel video installation, two dancers can be followed as they navigate Shanghai’s bustling streets, urban forests and massive industrial sites in search of connections to wild. The Air Connects Us was created as part of Jennings’ Becoming Human exhibition and supported by Project VT. Becoming Human is an intermedia collection of works seeking to identify and dissolve barriers between human and wild in the Anthropocene. Choreography created and performed collaboratively with Calvin Aham, music composition by Sean Clute, video direction by Jessica Gomula, cinematography by Allen Hahn and costume design by Amy Nielson.
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[radical] signs of life is a large-scale multi-media experience employing biotechnology to integrate networked bodies and interactive dance. Directed by Heidi Boisvert and choreographed by Pauline Jennings, the work externalizes the mind’s non-hierarchical distribution of thought through responsive, rule-based choreography and a database of phrases. Music is generated from the dancers’ muscles and blood flow via biophysical sensors that capture sound waves from the performers’ bodies. This data triggers complex neurobiological algorithms to be projected onto multiple screens as 3D imagery. As the audience interacts with the images produced, they enter into a dialogue with the dancers. Conceptually, the piece is an embodied examination of the increasing disparity between the encroachment of bio-data and the quiet discord of bio-memory.
]]>The QDP (QuarantineDanceProject) is a digital collaboration by choreographers Pauline Jennings @pauline.jennings.dance (Jericho, VT) and Alyssa Lee Wilmot @groupa (Cleveland, OH). The QDP was created out of personal necessity and in response to our experience of sheltering-in-place as artists, remote workers and humans existing individually and collectively within a global pandemic. Each week, we explore a new thematic and artistic challenge using only the tools and space available to us through experiments in self portraiture.
]]>This playful duet was created and performed collaboratively by Pauline Jennings and Joshua Lacourse with lighting design by Allen Hahn. The 40-minute, audience interactive work offered a joyful reprieve from the demands and concerns of daily life by inviting strangers of all ages to work together and take turns rolling four over-sized dice in an energetic act of co-creation.
]]>This is a single channel from the four-channel work, neighboring|towns. In this channel, two skiers are seen embodying experiences of intimacy and vulnerability while also giving voice to instances where such experiences are prevented due to international borders and foreign policy. neighboring|towns is by Heather Theresa Clark and Pauline Jennings with cinematography by Elizabeth Rossano, and choreography created and performed by Pauline Jennings in collaboration with Joshua Lacourse. ]]>
Created collaboratively by Pauline Jennings and Joshua Lacourse, with sound performance by Sean Clute and lighting design by Stefan Jacobs, this 50-minute work simultaneously questions and validates our collective need to form nourishing connections. Created as part of Jennings’ Becoming Human exhibition at BCA and made possible in part with a research and development residency and support by Vermont Performance Lab with support from the Vermont Community Foundation. ]]>
“13 Minutes of Nothing (Give or Take),” was a duet created collaboratively by Pauline Jennings and Joshua Lacourse. Exploring nothing, it is relatively fun to perform in an often alarming and tumultuous world. The work was developed while in residence at Lake Studios Berlin and premiered as part of UNfinished Fridays Vol. 59.
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