“Dancing to Music was made in 1988 in the midst of a year-long Fulbright Fellowship in London. This respite from New York came at a time when I badly wanted to strip movement down to it’s most essential elements in an effort to better understand how meaning arises from movement. When a friend played Wim Mertens’ music for me, I wondered if I could dance to the music with my eyes, alone. It was through the act of seeing that I felt I could best approach the emotional intensity that i heard in the music.” – Victoria Marks
AXIS Premiere 2006 (Restaged)
Choreographers: Victoria Marks
Dancers: Lisa Bufano, Margaret Cromwell, Sonsherée Giles, Alice Sheppard
Music: Wim Mertens, Casting No Shadow from a man of no fortune, and with a name to come
Lighting Design: Patrick Hajdu