Good Mother
Good Mother studies the effects of disassociation on the individual as related to other bodies in space, attempting to answer questions surrounding the growth of disassociation within systems, structures, and processes. With a depersonalized approach, the performers navigate a plane of existence through a taut, mechanical, classically informed vocabulary, framing the dancers as molecules originating from the same complex structure. In chemistry, disassociation is reversible thus dancers are constantly teetering on physical alignment or unison. The work is centered around a duet originally crated with and performed by Erin Bishop O'Brien and Stephen Patterson, also features dancers Autumn Randolph and Charlotte Smith. Good Mother and Displace Engine are currently in process of re-adaptation as one dance theatre piece.
