does your heart pound in your chest like mine (2025)
Direction: Kym McDaniel
Choreography: Kym McDaniel, Hope Bodley, Malaika Burke, Ava Hunt, Keagan McCarty, Masha Moiseytseva, Maya Regule, Brianna Rosato, Katie Sabatino
Performance: Hope Bodley, Malaika Burke, Ava Hunt, Keagan McCarty, Masha Moiseytseva, Maya Regule, Brianna Rosato, Katie Sabatino
This piece was made in collaboration with dance majors at The Ohio State University. It is a development of No Negative Space, a duet I created with dancers Nicole Spence and Amy Sutheimer-Barnes in 2017. This group iteration of the duet references the rhythms of the original dance while developing new identities of repetition and ritual. The piece moves between structured, numerically-driven choreographies to dancer-led improvisations rooted in choice, impulse, and desire.
I am interested in choreography as a device to make invisible structures, pain, and feelings visible. In this dance, the choreography was also an opportunity to explore relational empathy and conflict. What is the process of interrupting a repetitive pattern? How does this interruption change oneself and consequently impact a group? Choreographies of repetition, falling, and interrupting linear time embody my own experience with disability and unconsciously seep into the rehearsal process.
Barnett Theater at The Ohio State University
Department of Dance Autumn Concert
November 6-8, 2025