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There are many ways to make a dance about grief. This solo is a mess of conflicting impulses woven together to ask the questions about reflection and moving forward, not sadness and fear. I didn’t want to make this dance until there were no hard feelings, no sharp ones; I do not have that luxury. But, remaining tender is living in the warm parts, the parts where the dead are watching and see us as we are.
A brief but compelling solo, remaining tender was equal parts visceral and introspective; tactile and primal.
- Heather Desaulniers, DanceTabs
Original Premiere Date: December 9, 2016 at Mills College
Performed at The Gutsy Series, Supper Edition on December 11, 2016
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Concept Series by RAWDance, November 2017
Choreographer and performer: Bhumi B. Patel
Music: Helios
Lighting Design: Hamilton Guillen
Program Note: If the dead are watching, I want them to see that we still reach to each other.
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