Came 2

Choreographed, directed, and edited by Mia Martelli

Additional footage from YouTube

Music: “Sororal Feelings” by U.S. Girls

Filmed in Saugus, MA

Instagram: @mia.martelli

Fluffy Clouds

Created, danced, and edited by Hannah McClean

Sound: A Conversation with Rickie Lee Jones

Fluffy Clouds is a kinetic poster that mimics a TV screensaver. Grounded in reality, while the world passes by. It has an inability to move or participate due to uncertain circumstances. Apathetically waiting to make sense and cease but instead fading into obscurity.

Instagram: @hannahmccleannn

by side by

Created and danced by Margaret Wiss

Music by Mike Brun

Instagram: @wiss.co @_mikebrun_

A NYC Pandemic Story

Created by SteLi Dance

Directors/Choreographers: Lian Kizner, Stephen Galvan

Dancers: Kara Hauenstein, Asim Logan, Destiny Pino, Stephen Galvan, Lian Kizner

Cinematographer: Shane Allen

Music Producer: Dayebeats

SteLi Dance is ecstatic to be participating in the Groundswell Site-Specific 2020 Video Project! This helped to enhance our creativity after months of blockage, using safety precautions. We hope this inspires and lifts you up as it did for us to create it.

Instagram: @stelidance

Cascade

Created and danced by Gabrielle A. Woods

Music: “Rhythm of the Rain” by the Cascades

For my dad, JW

1936-2020

Instagram: @gabii5879

april 20: dance company [all my friends are frozen]

Created by Juli Brandano

Instagram: @julibran_

Danced by Josie Bettman, Juli Brandano, Amelia Heintzelman, and Leah Samuels

Fly

Danced, edited, & co-directed by Beverly Lopez

Cinematography & co-direction by Ebony Sojourner

Music: “Blackbird” by Nina Simone

Instagram: @redidancecompany @b.redi_brave @ebz_sojourner

Return To

Created and danced by Quincey Scholz

Music: “HOMME MADE” by Lupe Fiasco & Kaelin Ellis ft. Virgil Abloh

Rest in Power Breonna Taylor

Instagram: @quinceyscholz

For you

Created, danced, and filmed by Halley Willcox

Music: "Space Talk" by Asha Puthli

Instagram: @methodsofmadnessdancetheater

april 15: solo lag [talking to myself]

Created and danced by Juli Brandano

Instagram: @julibran_

Purge

Created and danced by Halley Gradus

Cinematography and editing by Hayden Gordon

Music: “Cocoon” by Bjork

In February 2016, I dated a man in Nepal who physically, sexually and emotionally abused me. Two years later, I was seeing a man in California, who sexually assaulted me after I had told him what had happened overseas. I thought that I had healed these parts of me and forgiven my perpetrators. The truth was that I had never felt safe enough to actually look at my trauma. As my mental health stabilized over the last year, the memories and feelings began to resurface. I started to pray about it, write about it and speak about it. I started to dream about sexual assault and my resistance to acknowledging it. At the peak of this emotional unraveling, BOTH of my perpetrators tried to contact me in a matter of weeks. I hadn't spoken to either of them in years. I felt this energy building inside of me. I didn't understand what it was, but it was begging to be released. So, I decided to create. I gathered my materials, did a practice run and by the time we finished filming, the only thoughts running through my head were, "get out, get out, get out." I knew then what this energy was. It belonged to my perpetrators and I had just alchemized it into a living art piece. Now, I know. Their pain is not mine to hold. I owe them nothing. Thank you to all of the trustworthy persons who have supported me through this process. I love you deeply.

Instagram: @gradusha @haydenpophoto

boat!

Created and danced by Tessa Barlow-Ochschorn

please help me make a small boat

Instagram: @tessabox