Artist Statement

I create dance works that present the human spirit as unadorned as possible. Raw, exposed and dynamic – the physical language reflects the intimacy of life and the power of shared and individual experiences, exposing vulnerability, human fragility and the vast emotional terrain of the human soul.  The work exists in atmospheric environments and live cinematic worlds where the smallest gesture can inhabit hundreds of moments and memories. The kinetic language is developed using an intuitive sensibility that hovers between wordless understanding and the profound unknown. The movement is woven with original sound scores to create textured fabrics, sometimes heavy and thick, sometimes rail thin and transparent. I honor the intimacy between the performer and the swirls of movement – complex, introspective, turbulent, heroic, tragic.   As the performer’s individuality and solitary interpretations create vibrant pathways of the moving body, the viewer can relish in that intimate space through a visceral connection to swaths of rhythm, color, light, speed, space, time, and juxtapositions that cherish secret resonances of personal experience.  Transcending our limitations and the expected, the work draws tangible weight from personal and poetic thresholds from living in this world. And even with other elements layered onto the work, it is the possible, the impossible and the immediate impulse of the moving body that forms the resilient yet tender core. From that movement, layers of possible meaning and thematic sensibilities are built and reverently revealed.  With each work, I attempt to bring out the soul under the spirit of the work, the passion behind its logic - the logic of form and technique structuring the work and the passion of the themes embedded in the multiplexity of its language (including unspoken movement language) all directed toward a place where the heart and mind meet – a synthesis of live performance – and more importantly the synthesis of experience.

- Michou Szabo