ARTIST STATEMENTS

102. Dancers, we are shapeshifters. We could be in a post-industrial planet consumed by ocean; we could be ciphering ghost-traces from what occurred in the theatre space before our arrival; we could be turning our bodies inside out to ride the currents of our fluids into hybrid territories, and also we are right here, now, dancing together.

17. I see dancing like this: dancing = the activation of my body as site, as terrain, as a situation that does not arrive simply….

999. If I’m doing my job, then when you see me performing you might get the sense that I am dancing and being danced by unseen processes unfolding.

850. I am using performance, movement, and sound to find planetary processes that are active inside the body : from the shapeshifting of water to the sedimentation of dirt and earth and bones…

2. I have been dancing since I was a kid, since 1994, and creating performance and facilitating workshops and moments for gathering since 2012.

35. I am forever obsessed with processes initiated by water and how those processes live within us.

Photo: Charlez Malasana, Tucson 2023

401. Sometimes, when the project calls for this, I live-compose it. Through a chain-reaction of open scores created and elaborated in rehearsal. I consult my spellbook always.

3. I’m trying to learn what my body does and activates in a space. To understand the gestures, scenes, images, and potentialities that emerge and how to deal with them, grow their resonance, or get out of their way.

101. The initial encounter between my collaborators in the studio serves as the point of departure for core themes and stakes of the project to emerge. We exchange different sensuous transmissions: to share our unique physicalities, styles of movement, sense memories, and archives of embodied knowledges.

390. I credit with deep gratitude those artists: including Eiko & Koma, Emily Johnson, Ivana Muller, and Valentina Desideri & Denise Ferreira da Silva, who put our relationality with each other and with the planet at the forefront of their work.

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we carry on

through day and through night

howling with the wolves who also travel in packs

offering us waylines to ramble down

stumble toward as we dance

healing our bodies from underneath our skin

we take in all the oxygen we need if only not to stop

because here we are, dancing again in impossible conditions.

Marion Storm is a dance artist based in Sete/montpellier. Her projects have been recently presented at Center for Performance Research (New York), 3 bis f – lieu d’arts contemporains (Aix-en-Provence) and mas nyam nyam (catalunia) among others.

Storm’s writing has been published by The Operating System, Loam, and About Place Journal. She teaches intergenerational movement/sensing/attention workshops for everybody, and offers dance classes to dancers that mix her particular embodied practices that fortify the links between body and place.

Storm was the recipient of a Foundation for Contemporary Arts ‘Emergency Grant’ for her collaboratively built performance and symposium resistance fantasies: strategies for moving toward– and against– in 2019, and was awarded an ‘Artists in the City’ scholarship by Fondation Hermes in 2019-2021 for completion of the Master Exerce (Montpellier) in Choreographic Research & Performance.

Her dance & writing work on and with the planet is grounded in hydropoetics, & the sensuouness of transmission in performance (like–this is what it feels like to…).

Marion Storm began to choreograph and compose dance in 2010 at The New School with the guidance of Neil Greenberg, on Lenapehoking land, in New York City.

photo credit: Charlez Malasana

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