A movement and video piece that brings audiences into the world of synesthesia.
Synesthesia is a neurological condition where activating one sensory/cognitive pathway leads to an immediate, involuntary experience in a different path- way. For instance, words or numbers can lead to colors, emotions, or even tastes. Some believe that physicist Isaac Newton may have been a synesthete, given his long quest to connect musical tones with color tones.
January is a Girl is a performance and media piece that brings audiences into this world. Video, words, sounds, images, ideas, and choreography are juxtaposed and merged in a loose, frenetic fashion—deliberately creating tension and sensory overload.
Visitors experience the piece as two screens displaying the dancers and visuals not as static projections, but fluid and dynamic representations, switching back and forth between the screens. The choreography draws from the world of classical and contemporary ballet, with a hint of Latin and hip-hop. Ultimately, the piece reminds us that so much of our reality is determined by the three pounds of grey matter inside our skulls.
