Openwork

a live-stream dance performance

Roxanne steinberg

Roxanne steinberg solo dance

“openwork”

a live-stream dance performance

Sunday, June 21, 10:00am Pacific Time (GMT—7hr)

LINK: https://vimeo.com/429450902/cc5da5308d

COLA (City of Los Angeles, Individual Artist Fellowship) recipient Roxanne Steinberg will live-stream Openwork, a dance performance staged in her home, using objects from her collections and audio recordings of conversations with her father to reveal history through memories and stories from herself and her parents and their engagement with the city.

Working with the questions of how to share the most subtle and intimate, how to express the way something smells or memories evoked from color or from a flicker of light and shadow across the floor, triggering yet another thought or memory in the fleeting present. The dance will intertwine audio recordings of her father to help ignite the moment with a sound composition by composer Paul Chavez.

“This is a time to reckon with personal experiences. I had been planning to bring myself with a constructed image of home to a public space. Now meanings have transformed as I will unveil a relationship to space becoming even more womblike - the idea of home within a home, and to include the presence of family, as my family has become my production team.

“I have had to completely change from making this piece for an outside venue but it remains essential to me that it be a live performance - that I channel a collection of thoughts, images and movements as they flow through me for an audience. The performance will be streamed from the intimate setting of my home where in some ways it is much more connected to my concept for this piece – a collection of memories and stories, and the questions of what people collect and why. Bodies are a repository of feelings, history, nostalgia… and my home is the container of actual objects from family and city. Culled from my and my relations experience of Los Angeles and the question of what makes us who we are, there are pieces of these landmarks from a life in the city we hear and see in my home. 

This performances are made possible by City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affair.