Third Space
2015
Choreographer: Rebecca Diane Huang
Music: When She Went Away & Something Under Her Skin by Max Richter
Text: Written by Rebecca Diane Huang / Spoken by Nicole Alexandria
Lighting Design: Here Perkowitz
Dancers: Keisha Bennett, James Rabideau, Marceia Scruggs and Michelle Zurita
Mentor: Keesha Beckford
Video Documentation: Jane Jerardi
Photo Credits: Laura Mora Baquero, William Frederking, and Emily Scanlon
The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago
Student Performance Night Spring 2015
April 16 & 17, 2015
Third Space was initially a short Dance For Camera solo-work. It was later built upon for a further sealing of identity. The quartet comments and responds to the presumed correlation between creativity and psychoses. The dance draws from a psychological meta-analysis by Carson, Peterson and Higgins (2003) entitled, Decreased Latent Inhibition Is Associated With Increased Creative Achievement in High-Functioning Individuals. The crafting process fostered an intellectual and physical examination of the relationship between creative innovation and instinctive usage of latent inhibition. Movement research explored both pedestrian and studio spaces, an intentional pursuit for exposure and receptiveness to familiar and newer stimuli. The project reaches its full fervor culminating in an interlacing of text, movement and musicality. Emotional and confrontational, this is a dance that celebrates the age of divergent thinking and questions the dismissing of art-making based on assumptions.