3-hour living installation layering dance, memory, sound, light and architecture

i miss doing nothing responds to living in continuous action by creating an environment that asks us to focus on the spaces in between activities. Space, sound and movement are organized around the rhythms of memory, breath and patience in order to focus the sensation of time passing within our bodies and imaginations. Can we create an environment that invites and engages, but also creates space for focus to wander, then come back? Can we use our body of work in conjunction with the imperfect nature of memory to shape a dance that is rhythmically sourced in our physiology? Can we perceive the passage of time differently?

Time is so weird now. It feels faster. Thicker. More gets done in less time and more is expected in less time. But also, there’s less time spent doing nothing. This speeding up is something we noticed in the late 90’s when we bought computers and opened hotmail accounts and it gained momentum when we moved those computers into our pockets. It’s also something that we’ve profoundly felt as our family grew from two, to three, then four. Part of this acceleration is natural and has been felt by parents since the dawn of time, but the other part is very new. As dance artists our relationships to time, memory and activity are precisely trained and tuned and we wanted to use this sensitivity to explore different ways of feeling time move through us.

Writing about

• The Dance Current
• Performance, Place and Politics