INTERCONNECTED FORCES

Choreography: Patrick Stayer
Dancers: Olivia Tatum,
Maleaha Semerad
Lighting: Travis Triplett
Sound: Joe Shea

My first realized work of original dance choreography, I developed this piece for the Student Dance Project (premiered December 5,6 of 2014), using the concept of duality, and the presence of yin and yang in everything around us, and to illustrate the balance between the dionysian, darkness, grounding, earth, and the apollonian, light, weightlessness, and the celestial. For you cannot have one without the other, and it was my intention during the creation of this dance to disrupt the confusion of those two entities with what many consider to be "good" and "bad". Life is all about balance.