Exploring belonging, connection, community and place, Queer Blind dance artist and maker Holly Craig works collaboratively, opening and holding space for a collective experience of dance that is not centred upon visual sight.
For their 2022 Critical Path Research Residency, Holly explores sound-based languages which support non-sighted navigation of space whilst dancing and communication between collaborators when improvising and/or sharing individual movement languages.
During their research residency, Holly continue the collaborative development of these non-sighted sound-based practice methods as a means of deeply investigating their potential to:
- Create space for safe and authentic artistic expression and collaboration;
- Foster and strengthen creative connections founded upon trust and reciprocity; and
- Open space for respectful cross-cultural exchange and learning, particularly in relation to the sharing of lived histories related to individual dance practices/movement languages.
Holly conducted their first set of experimentations with choreographer and dancer Victoria Hunt, Jeremy Lowrenčev, musicians Jochen Gutsch and Trevor Brown in early April.
Image credits: Image1 – Photo taken by Iris Shen during Holly Craig`s 2022 Research Residency, Image 2 – Video still by Jochen Gutsch, filmed during Holly Craig`s 2022 Research Residency.