2010-2026, ongoing research

here while nothing, work notes is an ongoing movement research and choreographic inquiry that began in Berlin in the summer of 2009 at the dance studios at Uferstudios Berlin, while working with dancers on a new piece. It proposes choreography as residue rather than intention—as something that takes place outside intention and yet remains deliberate. The research asks what kind of dance might emerge when there is no attempt to form any dance at all, and what possibilities arise from nothingness understood as a specific site or condition of production. The range of responses to this research question appears occasionally in both practice and theory throughout choreographic works, texts, processes, and practices. This line of inquiry led to a piece titled work every day (2010), which examined questions of dance work, immaterial labor, residual forms, rest, embodiment, form and formlessness, appearance and disappearance.