RECENT WORK:
Continuous Deforming LandscapeThe "Continuous Deforming Landscape" is a 15-minute solo with a group element that changes based on its production circumstances to include professionals or non-professional performers. A rope, a photograph, a taped square, and a pile of dirt mark the boundaries between image and reality, space/ form, and site/ non-site/ body as landscape. A sculptural costume becomes a link between the individual and community, birth and death, and what comes after.
Developed while in residence at the Philadelphia School of Circus Arts, through the creative incubator Circus Sessions produced by Femmes de Feu, and showcased in the multi-disciplinary "Test Flights" series at PSCA. 
Photo by Chris Robart featuring Jennifer Dallas and Sarah Muehlbauer.
Circus Sessions 2018 produced by Femmes de Feu at Harbourfront Centre Theatre, Toronto, ON
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ARTIST STATEMENT
What lessons have we known in our flesh, and what are we ready to un-know? My work poeticizes the relationship between the body and the environment as mirrors for one another. Most of all, I am interested in what it means to be human. Humans are all messy and dark and full of pain and love. We stumble through life learning and unlearning as we go--from the marks our ancestors scratched on our double helix, to the immediate circumstances we find ourselves in. We are highly individual, yet our foundational truths are deeply universal.
I am interested in the unique and the banal, the common and the strange, and how layers of symbols tap into a way of knowing that can’t be talked about directly. Textiles and performance art are the perfect media to relate to the bodies we inhabit and the layers of meaning we take on---from plainclothes to uniform to sculptural costume, we project ourselves into existence. I am interested in the human being at its most virtuous and at its most humble place of finding itself... alone on a stage, surrounded by others, standing and lying, running and writhing, climbing to great heights and falling down. Without judgement, but not without scrutiny. We are human.
I am interested in the unique and the banal, the common and the strange, and how layers of symbols tap into a way of knowing that can’t be talked about directly. Textiles and performance art are the perfect media to relate to the bodies we inhabit and the layers of meaning we take on---from plainclothes to uniform to sculptural costume, we project ourselves into existence. I am interested in the human being at its most virtuous and at its most humble place of finding itself... alone on a stage, surrounded by others, standing and lying, running and writhing, climbing to great heights and falling down. Without judgement, but not without scrutiny. We are human.
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