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 (such knowledge) has faltered and we have lost the collective wonder (such wonder) that once filled the eyes of our children and early civilizations. And it lasts about an hour.
In development. Premiering 2025.
Yay!
the institute for folding was selected as the 2025
Vermont Dance Alliance Resident Artist Project
Devising Workshops
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, delaminate and reconstruct the history of human knowledge. Or you just like cardboard, please let me know
We’ll be planning a few sessions throughout the winter and throughout the state, and we’ll be in touch.