Interconnect: Process

Acknowledgements

I have to first thank my parents for supporting my college endeavors and always believing in what I wanted to create, even if they didn’t understand it.

I want to thank my primary advisor, Norah Zuniga-Shaw for helping me break out of my comfort zone and giving me language for recognizing the unknown. Thank you for guiding me through the longest process I have ever engaged in and providing the space I needed to let go of things that were holding me back. My secondary advisor, Alex Oliszewski, was a fantastic resource on audience interaction and technology. Oded Huberman spent hours with me in the Motion Lab problem solving Isadora and without him there would be no projections or cameras or music. Thank you, Oded, for always saying “yes” to my crazy ideas and putting in the hours to figure them out. I want to thank Katie O’Loughlin for always letting me bounce ideas off of her and giving me space to work out my thoughts before entering the space. Lastly, I want to thank my dancers for their time and honest engagement with this work. Their creativity and commitment to the ideas that I offered them built the movement for this entire piece and gave it the heart that it deserved.

I have to thank the College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research Scholarship for providing the funding that made this project possible.

I also want to acknowledge the Indigenous tribes that historically stewarded the ecosystems that we visited and the land we created the dance on. These include the Seminole, Tequesta, Miccosukee, Cherokee, Tutelo, Erie, Hopewell, Shawnee, Myaamia, Kaskaskia, Yuchi, and Moneton tribes. Their historical and contemporary relationships with the land is vital to recognize as we move toward a more sustainable future. Whatever process we use to realign our relationship with the environment must center their voices and wisdom if it is to succeed.

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