As part of a three-day Illuminations Symposium, TLD presents

Time Lapse Illuminations: A Performance Demo & Discussion
* Jody Sperling, Choreographer and Founder/Artistic Director, Time Lapse Dance
* Maki Kitahara, Performer, Time Lapse Dance
* Andrea Trager, Performer, Time Lapse Dance

NYC-based dancer-choreographer Jody Sperling creates new work in the idiom of the early 20th-century dancer, designer, and technologist Loïe Fuller—who, among other unique contributions, pioneered new approaches to theatrical lighting. This event features Sperling with Maki Kitahara and Andrea Trager, two dancers from her company, Time Lapse Dance. After a brief introduction to Jody’s practice, the three will present a movement exploration swirling expansive silk costumes into dynamic screens for projection.

Using kinesphere-expanding costumes, Sperling’s work explores the body’s relationship to the larger environment. It has taken her around the world, including on a polar science mission as the first choreographer-in-residence aboard a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker, where she danced on Arctic sea ice. Sperling is currently developing her practice of “ecokinetics,” which cultivates the relationship between the moving body and environmental systems while providing strategies for climate-engaged artmaking.