Video: Hadi Fallahpisheh
Performed at the Lever House, 2018, New York, NY

Untitled (FOLD) is a duet working through notions of internal versus external movement. The sound score for this performance uses the speed that blood travels through the body as the parameter for its tempo. A rate of 3-4 mph (140 bpm), a tempo similar to walking, is the pace that the two dancers attempt to maintain. One dancer is given a set of rules, and their performance area has boundaries within a given architecture. Their movements act as a metronome, performing the character and aspects of the “internal” within Untitled (FOLD). The second dancer explores and performs the “external” role. Their movements are not dictated by rules and they can move freely through the theater, gallery space, etc - highlighting spaces which would typically not be characterized as the stage, and disrupting conventional delineations of the space performer and the space of the spectator. Untitled (FOLD) is a dance performance that folds and complicates the space within the body by attempting to not create lines. Employing the sound of circulation to accentuate the most intimate of movements, the “internal” dancer continues to fold into themselves at a controlled speed, while the “external” dancer struggles to move through space in a manner that disregards necessary tempos and linear guidelines.