Rachel Tess presents THESE ARE BODIES, THESE ARE MOTIONS, THIS IS THE PLACE at the River To River Festival

Company:
RACHEL TESS
Photo Credit: Courtesy of the Artist
RACHEL TESS
THESE ARE BODIES, THESE ARE MOTIONS, THIS IS THE PLACE.
June 21 at 1 p.m. & 4 p.m.
St. Cornelius Chapel, Governors Island
Co-presented with Baryshnikov Arts Center
All performances are free and open to the public, but RSVPs are required and will open June 1
Tags: Dance
In a landscape of palpable textures, performers Rachel Tess and Benoît Lachambre navigate the link between inner body and tangible object and animating the inanimate through an exploration of the senses in These are bodies, These are motions, This is the place. Skin becomes canvas, bodies become abstracted, glimpses of the recognizable are sometimes present, and the byproduct of contact with the outer environment is an acoustic/rhythmic transmission of the sensuous. Letting be, being with, and sensing the profundity of silence allows the performers to refer unobtrusively to the complexities of human relationships.