TC Tolbert is a genderqueer poet, and feminist,
and teacher, educator, and activist.
His work asks us--
his poetry asks us the question of how
we read, how we read bodies, how we
read books, how we read the world, how we
read each other and ourselves.
And in a way, the compositional improv practice
does the same thing.
His work is arresting visually, orally, aurally,
on the page, off the page.
He creates in his work a space that's
dynamic and uneasy, similarly as do we
as movement artists, musicians, composers, improvisers,
writers, readers.
Katherine Ferrier, who is visiting with us
from New Hampshire, is a poet.
She's a mover, a dancer, an improviser.
She's taught and performed all over the US and Europe,
including Finland, Italy, and Russia, most recently Tucson.
With us, she's our teacher and our friend.
We're happy to have her.
The other members of the Movement Salon ensemble
are Katie Rutterer, Greg Colburn, Kimi Eisele,
who's not actively performing with us today.
But as we say, when you're out, you're still in.
So in that regard, she's still in with us,
Connor Gallagher, who is not here
this evening, Jen Hoefle, TC Tolbert, and myself,
and Vicki Brown.
One thing about compositional improvisation
is that speaking, sound, language, and the dancing
body all smack up against each other,
and through these vital forces creates a new space for us
to experience together, and for us to consider
in aesthetic and creative ways.
Thank you.
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