Shapes of Movement utilizes the space in-between the disciplines of dance, sculpture, weaving, and architecture, to explore how we can be active participants in the environments we find ourselves in, and adaptive to how we intersect and respond within our communities. The site adaptive installation is composed of a modular steel structure and numerous weavings with the ability to be worn; dancers dynamically activate the elements and space through a feminist theoretical framework that champions the process, the labor, and the work over the end product. Linear structures begin to break down and open up to movement encounters that are cumulative, always listening and responding to the particular environment and community in which it is sited. 

This project was developed on sites including the University of Kentucky and Luigart Studio (KY), {Re}HAPPENING at Black Mountain College Campus at Lake Eden (NC), and Sunset Beach, Lummi Island, WA, with Rena Priest. The project is a collaboration between The Moving Architects, led by Artistic Director Erin Carlisle Norton, sculptor Crystal Gregory, interdisciplinary artist gwen charles, and Curator Kathy Imlay, supported by the University of Kentucky Arturo Alonzo Sandoval Endowment in Fiber.

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