Zoë Knights: "Court Dance"
Court Dance is a group work for 9 dancers which appropriates the movements of professional sports players and
sculpts them into abstract choreographic form. Void of such elements as competition and arena, Court Dance
allows us to observe physical prowess outside the context of sport, as a dance of bodies dependent on and
created through a group dynamic. Displacing these sports gestures without their natural resolution creates
rhythms unusual to dance, and allows us to observe details,
peculiarities, beauty and surprising sentiment in movements normally at the periphery of our attention.
Artists
Choreography: Zoë Knights
Rehearsal Director: Lisa Nevada
Dancers: Dalila Baied, Peter Bennett, Kevin Clark, Camille Duran, Liz Groth, Sarah Hogland,
Roxana Jian, Elysia Pope, Dalton Valerio
Understudies: Noelle Encinias, Luz Guillen
Light Design: Nathan Capriglione
Sound: William Liotta
Costume: Amaris Puzak
Set/Props: Lydia Berenice Lopez
Video documentation: Creation and direction of documentary archiving the rehearsal process: Christel Fruehøj Sørensen
Performances to Date
22 Feb - 3 March 2013, UNM's Rodey Theatre, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Duration: 30 minutes
Video
Documentary on the making of "Court Dance" by Christel Fruehøj Sørensen: https://vimeo.com/57458963