All the Pretty Little Horses

performance / installation

A devised performance project between a dancer, musician and fine artist that contemplates the expectation of motherhood, the reality of daughterhood. and the actuality of mothers not being able to be “mothers.” The piece explores the elastic relationship of roles between parent and child, the memory and presumption of intimacy, and the reality of distance.

We explore how new technologies play a role in creating invisible walls that offer the guise of connection but may, in fact, be the architecture of control and separation in the rapidly shifting landscape of family dynamics.

We juxtapose personal text messages and email exchanges with lullaby, materials of domesticity, and those of ephemeral reflectiveness, the loss of physical versus emotional control, and the adaptive relationship to the mother through movement. Working across mediums of dance, music, and theatre, we explore the universal themes of memory, history, and inheritance through the lens of our personal stories.

Created with Debra Scacco & Ariana Daub
Performance Stills from KLOWDEN MANN Residency