Performance in Playground Dance Project Movement Collaborator: Em Zinn Photos by Todd Collins Video by Eudonerio Quiroz This process used a heart rate monitor on the dancer and infrared camera on stage to connect the projections, audio, and movement through a live biofeedback system. The dancer used movement and breath to control her heart rateContinue reading “What the Heart Wants”
Author Archives: Kara Komarnitsky
Anthology
Dark Meadow Suite by Martha Graham Soaring by Ruth St. Denis and Doris Humphrey Performance with Repertory Dance Theatre Photographs by Sharon Kain
Lake Apprentice
Moving as phalarope alongside eared grebe and avocet, in devotion to this landscape, bringing imagination and wonder to the seats of power, adding to the call from more than human beings to be held with reverence. Deep thanks to Sarah Woodbury and Rae Lubbert, String and Shadow, Sav Pearson, Claire Player, Don Woodbury, Christina Morgan,Continue reading “Lake Apprentice”
Mine
You hold my shadow tightly, seeking something beneath. I pull away from the light and I can see the edges of this darkness more clearly. I go shaking and trembling. Into this place the light cannot touch – I find what is mine. Performance by Kara Komarnitsky and Lauren Cheree Wightman Music by Jon HopkinsContinue reading “Mine”
Infinity Room
It was thrilling to perform in this year’s Playground Dance Project in a wild and liberating new work by Masio Sangster. Thank you to all who came and witnessed this experience of endurance, trance, and flow! Infinity Room by Masio Sangster Playground Dance Project 2025 Photos by Ryan Ross
DEUX
The Winged by Jose Limon Photos by Sharon Kain
Show Me All of It
This work is the third iteration in a series that explores relationships, consent, power dynamics, and vulnerability using light to represent the gaze of others. How do we witness the people we love? What does it feel like to be seen? Who gets to choose what is revealed? Performers: Liv Beck, Meagan Bertelsen, Frankie Henderson,Continue reading “Show Me All of It”
Reducer Review
I had such a joy writing about the inaugural performance of The Woods Dance Project, read my review here: https://lovedancemore.org/reviews/2024/6/7/reducer-worked-on-me
Lake Bodies, accompanied by lake words
Selected for Utah Dance Film Festival, Queer Spectra Arts Festival, and Equinox Mountain Film Festival 2025. A creature of grief emerges from the phragmites – their changing form holding hundreds of years of death and loss. An eared grebe wanders the d(r)ying mudflats – tracing the pattern of salt the only way they know how,Continue reading “Lake Bodies, accompanied by lake words”
Playground Dance Project Review
Read my recent review of Playground Dance Project’s second year here: https://lovedancemore.org/reviews/2024/6/18/playgrounds-second-year An incredible success!
Kara Komarnitsky 