Verve

“The piece we’ll be developing is called pound — a storytelling of our grandmothers (both Kimmortal and I have lineage from Pangasinan), inspired by harvesting rice and grounded in community practices. Through this gracious residency, we will lay the groundwork for sound and movement scores towards developing my first full-length work. The piece highlights poetry, rap, and wh/aacking as portals to liberate the present body and the generations both before and after us.” — Lyzah

“Both my parents are from Mumbai, they met working in the Taj Mahal Hotel in Colaba. With this in my DNA, I’ve always been fascinated by the duality inside of major city life where grind culture is intertwined with moments of pleasure. A city like Mumbai operates 24/7, and I’m curious about time, time as a lover, a chameleon, as heat, as motion, as stillness, as a secret, as a borrowing… There’s life above ground with a darker underworld beneath it, holding it up. I am exploring this duality with musician and composer Mary Ancheta. When I first heard Mary’s music it felt like I was in the middle of a big city doing everything I love: working hard, finding pleasure, showing people what to do and how to do it. Mary’s ability to genre bend in music is quite like my ability to genre bend within dance and other art forms, so together I want to push boundaries while researching what it means to be a woman in power, walking the line of these dualities amidst the hustle and bustle of a big city.” — Simran Sachar

“My residency with musician Kathleen Nisbet distills contemplations on time and egg-sistentialism, through the medicine of movement, clown, music, poetry and Métis jigging. Seeded in 2016, “Eggsplorations” began as a deep study on organic shape - particularly on the multistates in which eggs “egg-sist”, and how they crack. We reflect on the egg portals of the universe: raw, fried, hard boiled, chocolate, Dino (yes, the oatmeal), eggos, ova & shakers.” — Sophie Dow