Because I am 1000 Grains of Sand - Site Specific - UT, US - December 8, 2015

"Because I am 1,000 Grains of Sand" is a durational movement piece that took place in the desert of Southern Utah. It is because of our bodily being that we experience ourselves as existing within time. In this project I wanted to explore the tension between the embodied present and the imagined past through movement. I chose the desert because of the physical extremity it represents, and because of the sense of stillness it maintains within this extremity. The landscape felt like a mirror for my relationship with my own physicality.
For this project I danced for three and half hours. I did Authentic Movement, which is a somatic improvised dance form that is based on principals of Jungian Active Imagination. Authentic Movement is about the place where the body and the imagined meet—it is rooted in the idea that through movement it is possible to give the imagined an embodied reality.
It was 28 degrees when I began moving, I had no shoes and only thin clothing, the landscape brought my own physical vulnerability to the center of the work.