Imagined Choreographies

In a time where the measure of presence is not closeness, 
where shall my body be?

In a time where the measure of closeness is not touch, 
how do we meet?

Imagined Choreographies

is an artistic research project expanding notions of absence and presence of the body through performance experiments, analogue practices, and collaborative processes.

Under the condition of never physically meeting in real life, since 2018 we (Ilana Reynolds and Sabrina Huth) have developed an ongoing artistic research project called Imagined Choreographies. We develop strategies and methods to research the potential of physical absence and how this potential expands the body into states of fiction and the in-between. Through extensive analog practices such as letter writing, cassette recording, spoken and written text, movement and performance, we investigate the imbricated relation(s) between presence and absence.

For each production process, we experiment with various media and invite different artists to collaborate. On stage, in galleries, and in the written word, we invite audience members into poetic landscapes in which the fiction and reality of the absent other are interwoven.

Imagined Choreographies

can be: 

The ‘meeting’ point of shared material and immaterial traces (text, notes, objects, movements) of the other’s absence and where I can imagine your immaterialized body choreographies.

Articulations and echoes of you not being here inscribed in my body.

Extending beyond the body of the performers; they manifest in the space. between different places and temporalities; sometimes between different realities 

Creating and feeling together in the absence of the other.

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