OUR MISSION
We envision dance as a powerful force that can help move us toward a more embodied, sustainable and equitable future. Our work aims to investigate the relationship of the moving body to the ecologies we inhabit through performance, media, education and activism. We have an ongoing commitment to advocate for climate justice through the creation of choreography—for stage, screen and street—that merges scientific and artistic research.
OUR COMMITMENTS
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CLIMATE CHANGE
We engage creatively with climate change with choreography that echoes the natural world and outreach that merges scientific and artistic research.
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LOIE FULLER
We reimagine the art of modern dance pioneer and performance technologist Loie Fuller in the context of contemporary and environmental forms.
our vision
The human body does not exist in a vacuum. We move within a dynamic world filled with staggering beauty and increasing vulnerability. Our work aims to engage human motion with the environment and grapple with the unfolding catastrophe of climate change.
The work often echoes geophysical forces, such as melting ice or blowing wind. By rendering such invisible forces into human choreography, we seek to cultivate empathy for the planet. With site work, whether we’re dancing in the streets or on an ice floe, we aim to reflect the landscape, listening to and echoing its pertinent features.
This work is deeply collaborative and cross-disciplinary, combining dance, environmental physics, music, visual art, lighting and media. Our programming integrates performance and media with outreach, including live or virtual workshops, presentations, talkbacks, screenings and panels with climate scientists and communicators.
Through all these modes, the work creates visual-kinetic narratives that bridge the gap between human and nature, art and science, mind and body.
Jody Sperling/Time Lapse Dance (TLD) is a 501(c)3 non-profit dance company founded by dancer-choreographer Jody Sperling in 2000. The company is comprised of Artistic Director Jody Sperling, six dancers who are all women-identifying, and a roster of outstanding collaborative artists in the fields of music, costume, visual art and media.