Movement Portrait: Palatial Ranch Project (2024)

Palatial Ranch Project is devised as a movement portrait of Charles Dietrich surrounding his experience of clearing out his parents' home, uncovering childhood memories, and processing grief. The choreographer, Andrea, worked collaboratively with Charles to generate the material through interviews and task-based improvisational scores. Presented at NACHMO Boston, March 2024.

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This is the first in a series of movement portraits. I am interested in presenting the stories of real people, not just dancers, through dance and text, much like photographers do with their subjects. I envision this as a long-term project, creating only a few a year throughout my career. It is a durational-compositional inquiry of how I observe, interpret, and represent people's stories and movements through time. Ultimately, I aim to create a body of work that encompasses a wide range of stories told by non-dancers, and that can also serve as a compass for my artistic progression.