Portals

The Open Studio series is a part of a larger body of work that Mother Mother is dreaming into and gathering materials for called Mother Brings Herself Back To Life. The Open Studio is an experiment in sharing elements of the revival movements that have come to Mother Mother in her private, nighttime dance communions with other dancing mothers in public and virtual community spaces. In addition to developing content for the future soft-time performance installation Mother Brings Herself Back to Life, the Open Studio series gives Mother Mother practice in producing soft-time performances that have a hybrid collaborative-time (face to face) component as well. Mother Mother is deeply fascinated by how we can stretch, split, and fracture time. How can this one moment be realized as many moments? 

Mother Brings Herself Back To Life evolves as 4 concurrent movement constellations, each one existing inside a distinct time parallel along the continuum of Mother Mother’s being, where she turns to the dance to revive herself and her fertility after feeling like she has died or is dying. A central part of Mother Mother’s discovery explores this question: How am I able to still feel alive and access a vitality for living and dreaming in the midst of such turbulence and uncertainty of daily life as a multitudinous mothering entity? It’s the dance. It’s always the dance.