About Carpet Womb.

Carpet Womb was prompted by a desire to navigate queer sex—queer gestation and parenting—and queer self-formation together. To dance with the conflation of our bodies as sensual and feeling, material beings that evolve over time in the perceived function of those sensations and shapes. And to adopt a deeply physical amorphism or dissolving-building-shifting (that is not abstract) in relationship to clear embraces of shape selves—clean edges, asking to be read or simply being. 

Carpet Womb is created by the mutual engagement of the entire performance team, with my direction and facilitation. We started with a shared score that had come from my solo, then responsive duet, explorations to create a group form. The ultimate choreographic structure is emergent from what came as the group navigated the evolutions of the score, and I shaped them from the inside and out, in conversation with the performers and their experiences. It remains iterative and based in improvisational tasks and prompts that can be hard or pleasing or funny to catch. I am grateful for how we have made this piece together in our own distinct contributions; the clarity and support of working where the performance team variably allows or invites being directed, pushes back when needed, weighs in, and exists in the vagueness with me is invaluable. Their creative generosity and thoughtfulness is a vital material of what you witness. 

Carpet Womb attempts to bridge the gap between queer spaces, often founded in sex- and body-positivity and absent of children and young people, and family spaces that are absent of visible queerness, queer culture, and gender expansive identity. My body stands in that gap. 
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Heat. Pressure. Slipperiness and adamant positions in collective multiplicity. 

This is deep Creation Energy and Eros. Desire. Play. Tension. Release.