Performing Practice:
​Stages of Staging Our Selves
2016

This work exposes gradations of authenticity and artifice, directorial vision and ensemble collaboration, mingling and overlapping to form a work. In part, a choreographic “How It’s Made,” this work also wonders if it’s fun to confuse the blood and the ketchup, the real and the staged, or the planned and the spontaneous. In playing these scales, what’s revealed is an interaction of mindful decision-making between the choreographer and the performer, highlighting the combined physical and intellectual demands of creating choreography. This work also wonders if we can reveal the mechanics of staging our selves, and somehow enhance the mystery and enjoyment of a dance experience.
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​CHOREOGRAPHY:  Jennifer Kayle
IN COLLABORATION WITH THE PERFORMERS:  Abbey Carlos, Autumn Eckman, Courtney Fleming, Ashley Kostelnik, Calvin Windschitl
ORIGINAL SOUND & TEXT SCORE:  Jennifer Kayle, with ingredients from Mozart, Pachelbel, Schumann, Welcome Sisters, and Sleigh Bells
COSTUME DESIGN:  Margaret Went-Kuchlbauer
LIGHTING DESIGN:  Laurel Shoemaker
VIDEO EDITING:  Ainsley Tharp
LENGTH:  25 min 
PERFORMANCES:
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2016  |  November
University of Iowa  |  Space Place Theater
​Iowa City, IA