this small room, lit up and afloat
A photographic and movement exploration of bodies in perpetual, unraveling motion. This live durational research session invites us into the fragile space between impulse and realization of impulse, where our sense of gravity, temporality, and potential is stretched beyond ourselves. Four dancers inhabit shifting physicalities that collide and morph in real time. The work unravels in conversation with the photographs that surround them: a series exploring the resonance of extremity and action, both inside and outside the body. Together, image and movement offer an invitation to lend our senses and the subtleties of our viewership, to the different ways time unfolds when we look at a photograph versus a living body in motion.
with Imani Butler, Maria Golici (left), and Colin Gross.
January 9th and 10th | 7:30pm
OutLoud Dallas
3137 Irving Blvd STE#313, Dallas, TX 7524
All contributions go to paying the collaborating artists.
past work
but the door
August 2025.
solo work holding unbearable nostalgia.
work in progress.
by Jenna Davis/ Music by Alabaster DePlume and Timber Timbre/ Text adapted from T.S Eliot.
p l a c e s
April 2024.
oh our changing proximity to our memories. at what points a space becomes a place. how have you learned to listen in these walls? with your ears but also every inch of your skin and what lies underneath it. how are you taking in your time here? notice what it’s doing to you. notice what you’re doing to it. can you hear me? what about now?
Collaborators/ Alec Marianek, Mia Sherrod, Grace Shirley, Jada Spriggs. Lighting/ Jon Bremner. Sound/ Intro from “Pain” of p l a c e s 3 by Martina Buzzi, Nicolas Buzzi, and Li Tavor.
maybe it’s in the lining of my jacket?
December 2023.
performance. friction. skin. insulation. destruction. craving. shedding. healing. breath. admiration. intimacy. an exploration of the connective tissue between us all. in how many ways can we sift through the identity that lives inside of the fabric we put on our bodies?
Choreography, videography, and photography by Jenna Davis in collaboration with movement artists-Ava Geske, M'Shiari Gonzales, Ryan Jaffe, Christina Jones, Alec Marianek, Solé Mitchell, Jadyn Rozzano-Keefe, Mia Sherrod, Jada Spriggs, and Sarah Waller.
Produced by SMU's Engaged Learning Fellowship granted to Jenna Davis with mentorship from Christopher M. Ham.
Filmed and edited by Rhett Goldman.
