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CIRCUITS performed in August at the Robert Moss Theater in New York, NY as part of the 2009 New York International Fringe Festival.

Winner of Best Choreography

Direction, Concept and Choreography: PATRICIA NOWOROL - this piece was created through a collaborative process with the performers

Performers: CHELSEA BONOSKY, NICHOLAS BRUDER, PATRICIA NOWOROL, MATTHEW OAKS, CHRISTINA NOEL REAVES, ELLIOTT REILAND, MIKA YANAGIHARA

Costume Design: MALGOSIA TURZANSKA
Lighting Design: SIMON CLEVELAND
Music by ALVA NOTO, edited by Nicholas Bruder
Camera: SASHA SANTIAGO
Video edited by BEN RICHARDSON and NICHOLAS BRUDER

In this 12 minute excerpt of Circuits, my intention is to highlight a middle portion of the larger work, rooted in an introverted experience of juxtaposing ideas explored throughout the piece. Ideas are literally expressed through movement, such as the continuous flow of electric currents within a circuit, and what happens when that circuit breaks and the electricity is cut one way or another. I ask, could these circuits be unique in their property construction, thus unique in their energetic production? These literal studies are metaphors for life experiences. The larger work contains dramatically different sections full of theatricality and dramaturgy, but here I offer you the most physically clear and focused moment upon which the whole piece pivots into its final sections.

Improvisation was our starting point as I asked each dancer to create phrases of material inspired by opposing ideas of movement quality, dynamic variation, level change, spatial orientation, etc. I then placed each performer in the space as their own traveling circuit and proceeded to offer and create challenges and obstacles to both impose upon them, as well as ask them to confront, explore, and resolve themselves. Our base became the strictly formed walking patterns of three men dependent upon repetition, yet challenged by slight and integral variations on ABC form. The women slowly and deliberately lock into the system. As a result we composed a twelve minute, intricately woven, grid of isolation, though at times simultaneous, experiences/dances.