CHOREOGRAPHY re-imagines and exhausts several strands of movement taken from my previous work The Wild Heart. I felt that this movement needed a deeper and expansive development that wasn’t possible within the cinematic structure of the former work. By stripping away the cinematic and thematic content, I am working to distill the essence of a more pure choreographic language that swells into an abstract movement manifesto honoring a reverent belief in the possibilities of what choreography can do. I aim to slam new ideas into a form that is unadorned, surrounded by an expansive space and giant expression. Simultaneously, I want to see if the intimacy of the movement can resonate juxtaposed with a panoramic architecture. The Knockdown Center is a voluminous vaulted restored glass factory - a labyrinth arrangement of brick, steel and heavy timber with ceiling heights of over 40 feet and adjoining rooms ranging from intimate to epic scales.

I believe in movement

I believe in form

I believe in shifting

I believe in standing still

I believe in swollen

I believe in love

I believe in turbulent swirls

I believe in empty

I believe in the human body

I believe in choreography

choreography michou szabo

video design nic petry/dancing camera and michou szabo

music and sound design bobby mcelver

lighting design joe Levasseur

costume design simile allegro

performance: the mill christiana axelsen . zachary denison . alexandria giroux . kevin ho . jennifer lafferty . sandy tillett . kathy wasik . christopher williams

premiered at the knockdown center maspeth new york may 2014