Unseen Dances

2009-13

Unseen Dances: Dances for Blindfolded Audiences 

Site-and audience-specific performances to be experienced by blindfolded audiences. Dancers revealed themselves and the space through sound, scent, touch, temperature and air currents. 

Many iterations, among them: BARK (2012), Latomie Del Paradiso (2010), and What We Were Handed a hybrid seen/unseen dance (2013), created in collaboration with Mari Meade Dance Collective

BARK! video excerpts

Why The Dog Had To Eat My Homework, or, A Paean To Why Sometimes Video Documentation  Is Useless

Venues included: The Performance Project at University Settlement; Movement Research Open 

Performance at Judson Church; Dixon Place; The Tank; Green Space; W.I.P. Dance New  Amsterdam; Performance Mix Festival; Joyce Soho; Figment Festival, Lower Manhattan  Cultural Council Studios on Governor's Island; FlicFest at Irondale Center, Brooklyn; 4 NYC  Public Libraries (sponsored by The Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library; Art on the Brain Conference: Intersections of the Arts, Neuroscience & Society, Foundation for  Psychocultural Research, Mt. Holyoke College, S. Hadley, MA  

Concept/direction: Dana Salisbury. No-See-Ums core company members: Amy Baumgarten,  Jackie Dodd, CJ Holm, Mari Meade Montoya, Noa Sagie, Dana Salisbury. Guests: Breanna  Gribble, Ashley Handel, Tzu-Ying Lee, Faye Minli Lim, Alyssa Lynes, Barbara Ann Michaels,  Mari Meade Dance Collective, Julia Ritter, Rachel Rizzuto, EmmaGrace Skove-Epes, Ashni  Sunder, Ronja Ver, Megan Woods, Sarah Young.

Environmental artist: Noah Baen

Musicians:  Daisy Jopling (Violin), Stephan Moore (Electronic Sound), Andrew Nemr (tap dance), Eric  Sluyter (Electronic sound), Mary Robb (Cello)

Video documentation: Peter Richards