2010-2011 Lab residency

Candice Salyers – Significant Figures

Candice Salyers is a solo performer and choreographer who creates kinetic installation pieces that juxtapose slow-moving body transformations with visual environments.  Her melding of dance and conceptual art results in provocative and inviting performance works that bridge the visual and performing arts.  In her performance works Ms. Salyers has an interest in exploring the moving body as a site for outgrowing limiting perceptions of human nature. Her works challenge the assumption of the female body as objectified by a viewer’s gaze and welcome viewers to experience intimate interactions in which desire is a productive force of the imagination. 

“Significant Figures,” Ms. Salyers newest work, will be a site-adaptive solo performance that delves into these dimensions of the female body in performance and traverses a world of varying sizes and scales of perception.

VPL’s Lab Program will support the development of Ms. Salyers newest work “Significant Figures” with two creative periods in June and September 2010 where she will develop material in the dance studio at Marlboro College, in the alley outside the Hooker Dunham Building in downtown Brattleboro and in the recording studio of Guilford Sound.

Due to the interdisciplinary nature of Ms. Salyers work, VPL has been able to connect with visual arts organizations and audiences by working with The Catherine Dianich Gallery to co-host work-in-progress showings and artist talks.

 Ms. Salyers will also work with women of different ages through movement-based workshops that explore individuals’ experiences and understandings of the female body.  In addition to workshops and artist talks, local audiences will have opportunities to see aspects of the new piece as it evolves through work-in-progress events in June and September 2010 and in its final presentation in June 2011.

Photos: Jeff Woodward