Equilibrium
The photographs in Equilibrium emerged through an open dialogue between the photographer and the two dancers who were engaged in contact improvisation dance practice. Contact improvisation is a contemporary dance approach that utilizes shared weight, counterbalance, and intuitive movement in relation to another body and to the environment. The camera is both spectator and collaborator: observing intervals of fluidity and stasis in the dance, and encapsulating moments of clarity, rhythm, and obscurity through still and time-lapsed exposures.
Rebecca Dietz (Photographer, Professor of Art, San Antonio College) is a photographic artist working in darkroom, digital, and hybrid photographic processes. She seeks moments of mysticism in urban environments. The camera is a device that traps time and bends light, where the world is transformed into mysterious spaces, lost fragments, or chance encounters. In this “unknowing” of the known world, the photographs capture dreaming and waking states and flicker between real and surreal.
Jordan Fuchs (Professor of Dance, Texas Woman’s University. Director, Jordan Fuchs Company) is a choreographer, performer, and teacher whose choreography is grounded in improvisational practice, specifically the bias towards disorientation, sensation, a movement form he has been practicing for more than 30 years.
Melissa Sanderson (Associate Professor of Dance, Austin Community College) is a dance artist whose work spans choreography, performance, dance film, and education. She has danced with the Jordan Fuchs company since 2015.