ARTIST STATEMENT

"What pumps in my heart are a raw physicality and athleticism, a dry wit, unpredictability, and a longing for a sincere connection between performers and the audience.

I prefer people dancing to dancers moving. I am a curator of chemistry between people and tend toward multi-disciplinary collaborations.

My yearn is to collaborate with female athletes of the heart who strike divine lines and make people laugh, cry, and wonder on my behalf. I crave creative, physical, and intellectual risk and rigor.

The dances I make are formal in craft and personal in delivery. I favor chance and spontaneity in hope of brilliant accidents. Who do I makes dances for? I honestly have no idea. I always picture a theater of strangers I want to get know intimately through live performance, laughter and hopefully gain their respect, affection and send chills up and down their spine now and then.

In truth, I make dances because I like the process of making them. It is important for me to edit to necessity, which is why I will end my artist statement at this exact point in space and time."

- Adele Myers