These days, my research, curiosities and explorations include:
new pageantry | what the edges of human knowledge look like | things that dangle
corrugation & folding | rowdy duets | anti-historical reenactments | lipsynching
embodied cognition | great blue herons

the institute for folding

2025 Vermont Dance Alliance Resident Artist Project

the institute for folding

a cardboard choreography of human knowledge, neglect and wonder

The Institute for Folding is an interdisciplinary dance work in layers, literally. Through movement, language, live sound and 30 sheets of cardboard, the work unpeels our human relationship to knowledge—our drive for scientific understanding, the ebb and flow of our ignorance, and our current disregard for what has been discovered.
Premiering September 2025

The 2025 Vermont Dance Alliance Resident Artist project.

process

One of those days where we stumble through sections, wrestle with sound and movement, survey the gaps, settle on some decisions… And leave feeling like maybe we have something?! Thanks for the drop-in 📷 @jtkerby!
Announcing the premier of “forecasts and findings” a new dance work for grain, bodies, burlap and sound. It’s been created by me, @fcampman and @jvthaney over these last many months. And we’ll be sharing it over three shows on

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forecasts and findings

a new work for grain, bodies, burlap and sound.

The grain is sown, gathered and stored. It’s cataloged and cared for. The grain is what we have come to know. And it will be what feeds us. But there is weather on the horizon. And scarcity at hand.

Created by Michael Bodel, Finn Campman & Jessica Trout-Haney

Premiered February, 2025