Collaboration
jill sigman/thinkdance collaborates with artists in
other media including music, theater, lighting design, and
photography. Collaborations include a portable “performance
tool box”, a theater work for a Croatian hill village, and
various photo series based on improvisations and dances.
Collaborative works include:
Our Lady of Detritus (2009): A highly-interactive, portable,
performance installation that traveled to parks and outdoor spaces in
multiple NYC boroughs.
RT: 2 hours
Music: Kristin Norderval
With a green-energy powered sound system housed inside an orange cargo
tricycle and a cheese-puff-filled cart decorated with garlands of
medicine bottles and green computer cords, Our Lady of Detritus raised
awareness about garbage and recycling by questioning our personal
relationship to the things we throw away.
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Flood Light (2003):
movement/light collaboration with lighting designer Severn
Clay
RT: 26 minutes
Music: Colby Leider
Flood Light utilizes portable light sources such as
incandescent bulbs, 4 foot fluorescents, and a mercury vapor
lamp, to create an ominous world of primitive magic and
contemporary social commentary. Clay is onstage throughout
this solo dance, manipulating the light sources of this
"performance tool box" which is set up differently in
different venues.
Peripheral City (2003): a
collaboration with the Bessie award winning collective Red
Dive and trumpet player Fred Wright on the Gowanus Canal
Fiver (2001): collaboration
with composer/pianist Sharon Zhu and a toy piano
The Beach Book (1999): Los
Angeles based photo project with photographer Sandra
Esslinger
Town Within A Town (1998):
collaboration with theater director Bobo Jelcic and five
actors in Groznjan, Croatia
Negotiations (1996): a
three woman show with Ze’eva Cohen and Aleta Hayes