Dance Me (aka Submerged) is a live hybrid-reality performance exploring identity. The piece was developed through months of improvisation and play with choreography, projected media, props and movement. Objects and projections become portals to different moments in time. First presented at the Festival of New Dance, St. John’s.
“Liz Solo’s performance of Dance Me was a definite highlight of the festival. Solo creates vivid illusions with props and video images projected across the floor and onto the wall. Comforting a baby while she walks through the galaxy, becoming a giant on a small island with waves washing her feet and a fairy frolicking in the brush are a few of the splendid images she creates. Her use of video and simple props is extraordinarily sophisticated and well calculated. Solo is a master of the physical gesture, projecting them in space and responding to their echo with sensitive 1ming. The variations of her tactile interactions with props harmonize well with the elaborate video environments projected around her. Solo takes on the qualities of light and magically transforms the space entirely.”
– George Stamos, The Dance Current
Collaborators/Creative Team
Created and performed by Liz Solo
Choreographed by Tammy MacLeod and Liz Solo
Directed by Tammy MacLeod
Video/Images/Animation/Music by Liz Solo
Photos by Jared Reid.