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Katie Balton and Melissa West, Staten Island Modern Dance Festival

Me From Myself is a series of short duets that grew from a piece I began at Hunter College. The score is a series of poems, and the duets examine the bifurcation Emily Dickinson suggests in her poem of the same title. Using two dancers costumed identically and a wordscore that abstractly wonders through identity formation and internal struggle, the piece is a meditation on how we construct and view ourselves. The piece was one of my first that directly dealt with the relationship between the body and language, and with identity construction based on language. It is modern dance with an even-handed pace throughout the piece, meant to evoke meditative contemplation.

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