Presenter: Breanne Burby
Authors: Breanne Burby
Faculty Advisor: Sara Gallo
Institution: Dixie State University
My artistic stimulus that I have chosen to work on is bringing awareness to the feeling of being in a toxic relationship. I wanted to play with movement of expansion and contraction to show the feeling of loneliness and reaching for help that a person may feel during a toxic relationship. My creative process for this presentation was about feelings that many people feel when they are a part of this type of relationship. I had asked people who have experienced these feelings what words come to mind, which include unsafe, trapped, controlling, cycle, lost, stuck, and alone. These words have a big influence upon the movement I have produced, along with a collaboration with the dancers I have chosen to be a part of this piece. There are movement phrases that have the dancers moving together along with solo movements that the dancers have created on their own, with only small prompts to influence their movement.