my socks are brown
at the Beijing Dance Festival
《我褐色的袜子》
my socks are brown is an exploration of vocalizations between dancers as they relate to seemingly abstracted takes on societal events and human perception. There is an integration of real life scenarios into an experience of physicalized theatre that comprises of illogical language and devised movement. Discombobulated conversation becomes the mean to conjoin different planes of thought. The reflexivities are seemingly random, but related and intertwined. As two performers take on the roles of an infinity of thoughts and perceptions, they do not represent any one thing, but rather, the possibilities of thought within a body of minds.
Choreographers: Jun Shen, Ladonna Matchett, Kelsey Oliver
Dancers: Ladonna Matchett, Kelsey Oliver
Creative process Videographer: Clarence Lam
This piece was performed at the Beijing Dance Festival in July 2016
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the creation process:
how do you like the smell of me
there are so many layers
of unreckoned sterile,
i don't know what has been suppressed under my packaging
waiting to be eaten
and what has long gone since the meat rollers passed dissipated
before you could sniff the scent of it
the sense of it
now
i can tie pretty bows all over these corners
these sharp witted don’t-touch-me-now
conjoinings annoyances that I like
but that would be beyond the point
because it is
fragrance behooves your buds doesn’t it
eradicates your dictates of yearn
i disgust you,
but i like it
don’t forget to breathe me in
-kelsey oliver
a monologued excerpt from my socks are brown
Dresses with Catheter
