"A performance experiment where the duet is charged with the exploration of stillness, action, sweat and effort. Participants are chosen based on their choreographic approaches and aesthetic differences that touch these categories. Performances can be rehearsed, improvised, score-driven or otherwise. The collaboration can be collective, competitive, a battle, a fusion, or indeterminate."
Date of Performance: May 30, 2012
PARTICIPANTS: Aretha Aoki devynn emory Niall Jones Jennifer Monson
All photographs taken for Critical Correspondence by Tara Sheena
Aretha Aoki and devynn emory emerge from the crowd to begin their duet
From L to R: Aretha Aoki and devynn emory
devynn emory and Aretha Aoki, in a duet imagined and re-imagined again
Aoki in the foreground, with emory close behind
A moment of remembered synchronicity (from L to R: devynn emory and Aretha Aoki)
And, again (from L to R: emory and Aoki)
Heads butting, Niall Jones (Left) and Jennifer Monson enter the space
Jones and Monson, caught in a tender moment, caught in a deep lunge
Released and rejoined (from L to R: Monson and Jones
A balancing act: Monson engulfs a steady Jones
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Aretha Aoki, Devynn Emory, Jennifer Monson, Movement Research Festival, Niall Jones
