Life Lines

“This work is a dedication,

a site specific movement score and dance film,

connecting us to ourselves, one another,

the land, and what gives us life.”

Life Lines is a dance film and improvisational score seeking body’s connection with land.

Developed in response to the need to bring us into relationship with our bodies, our cultures, and with one another, this dance score and film was made with dance artists whose identities are unique, and was filmed on three continents.

Life Lines (2020), is an improvisational movement score seeking our bodies connection to land, self, other, and ancestor. This work is intended to partner with indigenous communities and venues, national parks and historical places of interest, to bring awareness to the history of the land, the bodies that live here, and the messages that come forward as valuable across generations today.

This work is in relationship to different lands, and includes people whose identities are unique. This work can take place as a residency, performance event, or filmed showing with community engagement.

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Credits

We invite you to join us in recognizing with respect, gratitude, and responsibility the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe, Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, Coastal Band of the Chumash Nation, and the Gabrielino - Tongva Tribe. As traditional keepers of these lands where we have filmed, we are grateful for the stewardship and rituals of their ancestors, elders, mothers and fathers, two spirits, and children, past, present, and future.

Life Lines Artistic Director:

brooke smiley

Life Lines Dance Artists:

Takeshi Matsumoto

Maria O’Driscoll

Jacob George Ingram Dodd

Kelly O’Conner

brooke smiley

Timothy Wood

Jonathan Frederickson

Lifelines Original Sound Score:

Timothy Wood

Lifelines Film Director and Editor:

brooke smiley

Lifelines Film Creative Consultant:

Wanda Gała

Special Thanks:

Linda Smiley

Timothy Wood

Alison Zuber and Andy Cohen

The Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe

The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe