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’s teaching and performance practice is informed by the meeting of dance and theatre and includes Six Viewpoints improvisation, Grotowski, Floor Barre, and postmodern philosophy.
The further intersection of her writing and physical practice is supported through a collaboration with poet Alyson Hallett and poet/mover Scott Thurston. She was able to develop her interdisciplinary approach as a 2022 Gardarev Artist-in-Residence.
She is the founder and facilitator of an on-line community of artists studying and researching the Six Viewpoints and is one of the four stewards of Mary Overlie’s Legacy Project. She and Sophia Treanor recently premiered a dance theatre duet left for them by Mary Overlie before her passing in 2020. This project is supported by the Harold Clurman Center for New work in Movement and Dance Theater and had its North American premiere in June, 2023.
Deborah has an MA in Dance Education (NYU Steinhardt 2024) where she wrote a curriculum for an interdisciplinary liberal arts BA. She is currently teaching part time at… Continue Reading…
photo by Dave Ratzlow
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