Unstable States: Shell(ter)

This is a slow, evolving process, built on shifting states—unstable and under constant experimentation. In this moment, dancers Rachel Sigrid Freeburg, Beth Graczyk, and Leah Wilks navigate the dynamics of autonomy and togetherness in performance. They calibrate to states of heightened attention, engaging with bio-based materials in unusual phases of transformation. What does it mean to attempt to prolong the life of things on the verge of decay—pressing into matter and feeling its resistance? How does a visceral exchange with forgotten or discarded materials, like eggshells—a potent symbol of transformation—prompt reflection on origins and unfolding journeys, where body and material might converge and evoke their own cycles of disintegration and renewal?

Directed by Beth Graczyk
Sound by Aaron Gabriel

Performed by Rachel Sigrid Freeburg, Beth Graczyk & Leah Wilks

Host or Publisher Beth Graczyk Productions, Inc.