Photo by Ian Douglas
Distance Measures & Orbit Design (2012)
Performed in darkness, lit only by moving LED candles, Distance Measures (2012) borrows elements from mathematical models of chaotic systems. This highly structured movement score evolved collaboratively alongside Derek Bermel's Orbit Design, a musical algorithm inspired by the three-body problem in celestial mechanics.
Choreography: Abigail Levine
Music: Derek Bermel
Dancers: Carolyn Hall, Abigail Levine, Aaron MattocksMusicians: Derek Bermel, Danielle Kuhlmann, Alex Sopp
Engineer: Daniel Rosza Lang/Levitsky
Orbit Design was commissioned for the 2012 Look and Listen Festival with a generous gift from Augusta Gross and Leslie B. Samuels.
As Sugar Loaves Train Horses (work-in-progress)
“Structure is simple because it can be thought out, figured out, measured. It is a discipline which, accepted, in return accepts whatever, even those rare moments of ecstasy, which, as sugar loaves train horses, train us to make what we make.”
— John Cage, Lecture on Nothing
Choreography: Abigail Levine
Text: excerpts of John Cage's Lecture on Nothing, read by Mark Nelson and Danielle Kuhlmann
Performers: Carolyn Hall, Abigail Levine, Aaron Mattocks
Production Midwife and Spectacle Engineer: Daniel Rosza Lang/Levitsky
About the Artist
Choreographer and performer Abigail Levine brings together the rigors and resources of dance's bodily specificity with performance art's experiments with time and human action. She has presented her works in the US, Cuba, Brazil, Venezuela, Mexico, and Taiwan, at venues including the Movement Research Festival, Center for Performance Research, Art in Odd Places, Foro Prisma, SESC São Paulo, Taipei Fringe, and Havana's Dias de la Danza. Abigail has performed recently with Marina Abramović, Carolee Schneemann, Clarinda Mac Low, and Larissa Velez.
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