Abilities Dance Boston
I'm So Tired
Solo dance piece from the Cultivate 2020 Annual Production
Performance on video, 8:22 minutes. 2020.
Dancer/Artistic Director Ellice Patterson
Costume and adaptive device design by A. Laura Brody
Website: www.abilitiesdanceboston.org
Boston, USA
Audio description editing by Amber Pearcy
Video by Alberto Montalvo
VO by Andrew Choe
Solo dance piece from the Cultivate 2020 Annual Production
Performance on video, 8:22 minutes. 2020.
Dancer/Artistic Director Ellice Patterson
Costume and adaptive device design by A. Laura Brody
Website: www.abilitiesdanceboston.org
Boston, USA
Audio description editing by Amber Pearcy
Video by Alberto Montalvo
VO by Andrew Choe
ABOUT THE DANCE:
The dance is about exhaustion with personal and professional struggles. As I transition through different modalities, that plays into my fatigue and overall outlook in the moment. At the end, there is a sense of running up and down until I eventually find a moment of stillness.
STATEMENT:
A few years ago, as I was auditioning and taking classes around the greater Boston area, I found that there was no place that would develop and allow me to perform on a professional level.
I even discussed with the director of one company my limitations and inquired if there was one choreographer among the many there that would modify to meet my requirements. She kept repeating that this was a professional company. I was angered by that interaction. I decided that if there was not an institution for me and run by people like me then I would create it. Abilities Dance Boston was born.
Since our very first show February 3, 2017, the company has gone and continues to go to new and uncharted territories. I am constantly amazed by the dancers I have worked with and currently work with. The light in each of them shine bright individually and radiate together in rehearsals and on stage as they shine their truth. They inspire me to continue our mission and spread it through performances, workshops, and my daily life. Through the company, I empower and have been empowered. At the helm as the executive director, I hope to continue to break barriers and drive the value of inclusion for all abilities.
-Ellice Patterson, Artistic Director
I even discussed with the director of one company my limitations and inquired if there was one choreographer among the many there that would modify to meet my requirements. She kept repeating that this was a professional company. I was angered by that interaction. I decided that if there was not an institution for me and run by people like me then I would create it. Abilities Dance Boston was born.
Since our very first show February 3, 2017, the company has gone and continues to go to new and uncharted territories. I am constantly amazed by the dancers I have worked with and currently work with. The light in each of them shine bright individually and radiate together in rehearsals and on stage as they shine their truth. They inspire me to continue our mission and spread it through performances, workshops, and my daily life. Through the company, I empower and have been empowered. At the helm as the executive director, I hope to continue to break barriers and drive the value of inclusion for all abilities.
-Ellice Patterson, Artistic Director
DESCRIPTION:
I'm So Tired
In the background are black curtains and a black floor and walls. On the left is a kneeling dancer with brown skin, dark hair, and slender arms. She wears a black and red dress and looks down at the black floor. On the right is a walker dressed in red and black patterned fabric banners with heavy gold fringed edges. A pair of red covered crutches lie on the floor by the walker.
Video description of the dance is included in the video.
-image description by A. Laura Brody, video description by Amber Pearcy
In the background are black curtains and a black floor and walls. On the left is a kneeling dancer with brown skin, dark hair, and slender arms. She wears a black and red dress and looks down at the black floor. On the right is a walker dressed in red and black patterned fabric banners with heavy gold fringed edges. A pair of red covered crutches lie on the floor by the walker.
Video description of the dance is included in the video.
-image description by A. Laura Brody, video description by Amber Pearcy
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