Laurie says:
I finally saw my daughter Cid Pearlman’s amazing dance and poetry video at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History. It runs through March 20th. Her work is five immersive films which feature superb poems by a varied group of poets.
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The video has a separate theater space in the Rydell Visual Arts Fellowship exhibition. It’s a brilliant video triptych of dance and related images. Here’s a brief video from (home)Body.
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(home)Body Trailer from Cid Pearlman on Vimeo.
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As the lead poet Denise Leto writes: (home)Body invokes complex relationships between embodiment and place. We explore questions such as What does it feel like to be at home in your body? What are embodied experiences of home across intersections of identities and expressions? With a multiplicity of voices, dancers and poetic imaginaries, the work speaks to ideas centering home and body through personal, experimental, and topical approaches. The films involve site-specific and immersive environments both natural and built. Spaces and bodies interact in a collaborative and choreographic conversation.
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I had to wait to see the exhibition til my eyes had recovered sufficiently from cataract surgery. (They are fine now.) It was really hard to wait to see it. It would be an understatement, to say it was worth waiting for. It was exquisite and remarkably brilliant. And I say this having watched her work since the beginning.
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Sima Belmar writes about the work in the exhibition catalogue: (home)Body is a multimedia and multidisciplinary art installation conceived by artistic director/choreographer Pearlman in collaboration with poet/dramaturge Denise Leto, video artist Mara Milam https://cidpearlman.org/mara-milam and an intergenerational group of dancers. The work is built on a scaffold of poems provided by Leto and four commissioned poets, JJJJerome Ellis, Willie X Lin, Naomi Ortiz and Tanaya Winder. Centered around five dance videos and five poems, and with the occasional live performance element, (home)Body represents the latest leg of Pearlman’s artistic journey, one that grapples with the concept of home as a relationship between human beings and the choreographic objects of space, place and embodiment.
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Go see it if you can. It’s an amazing experience. Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History – through March 20, Thursday – Sunday, 12:00-6:00pm
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