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.
Premiering September 2025.
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
Yay!
the institute for folding was selected as the 2025
Vermont Dance Alliance Resident Artist Project
