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. This is a dance for our precipitous moment when adult trust in knowledge has faltered and we have lost the collective wonder that once filled the eyes of our children and early civilizations. And it lasts about an hour.
Created by Michael Bodel
Choreography and Performance by Michael Bodel, Caitlin Morgan, Hanna Satterlee
Composed by Rodrigo MT
Tour Dates
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Work-in-progress showing | 5 pm
Briggs Opera House
White River Junction
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7:30 PM
Highland Center for the Arts
2875 Hardwick St
Greensboro, VT 05841Tickets>
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7:30 PM
Next Stage Arts
15 Kimball Hill
Putney, VT 05346
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First Congregational Church of Burlington
38 S Winooski Ave
Burlington, VT, 05401
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7:30 PM
Briggs Opera House
5 S Main St
White River Junction, VT 05001
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Artists
Michael Bodel makes interdisciplinary dance works. Many rely on objects, text and sensorial elements. His process involves wide-ranging research and both serious and silly play. His collaborators vary from project to project. Past works have included dances choreographed to oral histories of immigration, a pageant set in an apple orchard, a puppet opera version of La Sonnambula, and a work for bodies, live sound and sacks of grain. He often integrates large-scale puppetry and kinetic objects, and his choreography interweaves nuanced gestures, high-energy action, and loosey-goosey stuff. He has been a resident artist at Vermont Dance Alliance, Vermont Performance Lab, HERE Arts Center, St. Ann’s Warehouse and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
Hanna Satterlee creates performance experiences and conceptual artworks for stage, site and film. Hanna holds degrees and certifications in dance therapy, psychology, performance, choreography, vinyassa/yin/restorative yoga, non-profit management, interdisciplinary art, and arts integration. Hanna shares these passions as an intergenerational educator, interdisciplinary performer + collaborator, contemporary choreographer, experimental curator and event producer.
Dance has brought her around the world but always back home to VT, where she has had the opportunity to create new programs, curriculums, organizations and events for dancers and the public. Hanna is the founder of the Vermont Dance Alliance, theINSTINCT Experimental Dance Festival, and ANIMAL Dance Performance and Production Company. Hannacurrently directs ANIMAL Dance, based in Burlington VT.
Caitlin Morgan is a Burlington-based creative with roots in the Midwest and NYC, interested in flow-state embodiment as a means of eliciting nuanced, collective understanding and alchemical impact. Her work—commonly inspired by ecosomatics, communication theories, and postmodernism—has been featured across New York, Vermont, Ohio, and Michigan, including for the Junction Dance Festival (as a ChoreoLab artist in residence), the Small Plates Choreography Festival, Teatro LATEA, Mark Morris Dance Center, the Actors’ Fund Arts Center, and more. Woven around her movement research, Caitlin edits novels, performs with ANIMALDance and other local makers, and facilitates classes at Lines Vermont, Studio 3, and Sangha Studio.
Rodrigo Martínez Torres (CDMX, Mexico) is a composer interested in the inner architecture of sound, and its resonances with the mind. He is a multi-instrumentalist, and his work spans radio broadcasting and production, performing in rock bands, composing for the orchestra, and scoring for film and theater. Rodrigo’s recent projects include a sonic and sculptural installation inspired by the architecture of Luis Barragán and composing the score for the film Doce Lunas. Rodrigo has been a MacDowell Fellow, won the 2020 Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble Composition Competition, and the 2017 Arturo Márquez composition competition with his piece “Mambo Urbano”, for chamber orchestra. He studied music composition in Academia de Arte de Florencia (CDMX) and in Centro Superior Katarina Gurska (Madrid, Spain), and holds an MFA in Sonic Practice from Dartmouth College (NH, USA)
the institute for folding is the 2025
Vermont Dance Alliance Resident Artist Project
Devising Labs
This dance project is being developed in layers, and one of those is a series of choreographic devising labs. If you are a dance artist, theater-maker, puppeteer or designer willing to lend a few creative hours to explore, ideate, move through, and construct with cardboard, please join in
Past Devising Labs
April 18 Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH
April 26 The Flynn, Burlington
May 1 Next Stage Arts Project, Putney
