Ground (2016)

With a cast of ten dancers performing contact improvisation, Ground is the third in a series of video dances created by collaborators Jordan Fuchs and Melissa Sanderson that utilizes disorientation as a strategy for making the embodied experience of dancing accessible through video. Juxtapositions of foreground and background create engaging mysteries and incongruities in which the impossible becomes possible.

São Carlos Videodance Festival - São Carlos, Brazil - 2017 Iowa International Screendance Festival - The FilmScene - Iowa City IA - 2017 Jacksonville Dance Film Festival - Museum of Contemporary Art - Jacksonville FL - 2017 Utah Dance Film Festival - SCERA Center for the Arts - Orem UT - 2017

Concept/Choreographic Direction: Jordan Fuchs, Melissa Sanderson

Performance: Kara Beadle, Tiffany Bierly, Yeajean Choi, Ashleigh Christian, Jordan Fuchs, Whitney Geldon, Alaina Hughes, Brittany Hunter, Néstor Pérez, Talaria Rashidi

Editing: Melissa Sanderson

Original Music Composition: Andy Russ

Camera: Yeajean Choi, Melissa Sanderson

Light Design: Dayna Morgan