In the Particles
A podcast where Deborah Black, Sophia Treanor, and Youlim Nam discuss postmodernism, art practice, and a new movement they are calling particalism is now live.
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our dance on the empty stage in your mind*
In the winter/spring of 2024 Deborah choreographed a dance at NYU for students and one member of the faculty. You can check it out here.
*title adapted from Greg Fuchs' line, "My poem here on the empty black line of your mind”. Referenced in Joe Pan's essay, Bottomless Cup, in The Brooklyn Poets Anthology. Photo by Rebecca Marcela Oviatt.
Ephemera
In a final co-creation between living artists Deborah Black and Sophia Treanor and their late collaborator Mary Overlie, Ephemera is a dance theater performance that explores entropy and the emergence of difference in our universe. Amidst a forest of sequined cook’s aprons and caps, vacuums, microwaves, and clowns, Ephemera makes visible the invisible. The logic and illogic of life’s beginnings are made material by explosions of movement and sound, expansion, contraction, symmetry, asymmetry, and popcorn, to ultimately ask: Is this all there is? Running time 70mins. Please contact Deborah for more information.
Donate to the Mary Overlie Legacy Project here.
Deborah Black is a dance theatre artist, writer, and teacher.
Deborah Black is a dance theatre artist, writer, and teacher.
She is currently a PhD student in the Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies Program at UC Berkeley.
Deborah’s teaching and performance practice is informed by the meeting of dance and theatre and includes perceptual practices like Six Viewpoints improvisation, Grotowski, and Hamilton Floor Barre alongside postmodern philosophy. She seeks to unpack and deepen these intersections in her doctoral research bringing queer theory, decolonization, and poststructuralist philosophy into the fray.
She is fascinated by the nexus of writing and physical practice and has been in conversation/practice with poet Alyson Hallett and poet/mover Scott Thurston since 2017 and 2019, respectively. She was able to further develop her interdisciplinary approach as a non-fiction writer when she was invited to be a 2022 Gardarev Artist-in-Residence.
She founded and facilitated an on-line community of artists studying and researching the Six Viewpoints in 2018 and currently serves as a steward of Mary Overlie’s Legacy Project with Sophia Treanor, Nicolas Noreña, and Tony Perucci. Continue Reading…
photo by Dave Ratzlow
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