Between Constructions of Desire

Between Constructions of Desire is a movement installation exploring the links between interior space and external space – within which lies desire of the always localized self and body. Embodied experience is brought into relief by the concrete explorations of body, object, and space. Influenced by minimalist dance and visual art, this dance extends the bodies’ flesh spaces into architectural space as “a medium of experience”, and one that reminds us of the inherent desire that space leverages to express power, labor, tenderness, and the promise of impermanence.

April 2019, Jan Serr Studio, Milwaukee

CHOREOGRAPHY + DIRECTION: Maria Gillespie

PERFORMANCE + COLLABORATION: Katelyn Altmann, Amanda Laabs, Annie Peterson*

MUSIC COMPOSITION + PERFORMANCE: Countess Olivia Valenza

SCULPTURE: Glenn Williams

*UWM Student Undergraduate Research Fellows January 2018-May 2019.

This performance was made possible with support from the UWM Department of Dance, The Peck School of the Arts, and the UWM Office of Undergraduate Research.