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In My Element
The movement for this dance was inspired by preferences and environments that we each associate with our natural ways of moving. We explored how our perceptions of movement look and feel differently, particularly in the context of accessing the opposite preferences and environments to replicate each other’s natural movements in one another’s bodies. The concept of the piece expresses how we become inspired by and learn new things from certain people in our lives.
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Performance, Choreography, and Editing: Laura Ardner and Naomi Bates
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Featured in SRU "Against All Odds" virtual dance concert in April, 2021 and MAC Arts Festival (Multidisciplinary Arts Collective) in 2021
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Piece of Mind
This dance is rooted in my research on Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences and how each intelligence can lead to new choreographic possibilities. This piece took an experimental approach to choreography, and the dancers each contributed to the dance by transforming a base movement phrase into a new one by utilizing and exemplifying their primary types of intelligence. The music was created by Aaron Caplea before the choreographic process began, and I crafted the base movement phrase based solely on images that came to mind during my first time hearing the music and the feelings and thoughts that were associated with this first impression. Certain sections were choreographed specifically to the music by me, and the transformed phrases by the dancers were specifically placed in areas that I felt that the dancers' movements and intentions lined up with the feelings from specific sections of the music.
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Performers: Jade Daniels, Derek Jenkins, Faythe Lewis, Kristina Lewis, Zsuzsanna Smith, Tori Steel
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Featured in SRU "Against All Odds" virtual dance concert in April, 2021 and MAC Arts Festival (Multidisciplinary Arts Collective) in 2021.
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Working Hard or Hardly Working?
This short film was filmed entirely during quarantine in March, 2020 at the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdown. The manager of a company is beyond frustrated with Zoom and everything that she has to do, and she dreads her virtual staff meetings. Her feelings about Zoom seem to change as a spontaneous dance party breaks out to distract the staff from the stressors of their meeting.
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Performers: Laura Ardner, Naomi Bates, Morghan Dyer, Kathryn Hines, Madeline McKissick, Kimberly Purretta
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Videography: Laura Ardner, Jane Ardner (under direction of Laura Ardner)
Recently Featured in the 92Y Mobile Dance Film Festival: Quarantine Screen Selection 2020
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Ctrl+Alt+Delete
This dance film highlights the activity that occurs behind the screens while exploring direct and indirect effects of arguments that have been occurring on social media. Two perspectives are depicted in this piece as two dancers quarrel and interrupt each other through movement while the third performer observes the progression and outcome of this negative, virtual interaction.
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Performance: Morghan Dyer, Faythe Lewis, Tori Steel
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Videography: Laura Ardner, Morghan Dyer, Faythe Lewis, Tori Steel
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Choreography: Laura Ardner
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Editing: Laura Ardner
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I'm Bored, What's Next
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Slippery Rock University Fresh Moves virtual concert​​
Experimental Short Films
This short untitled film was recently featured in Slippery Rock University's virtual 60x60 performance in 2020. This film explores the humor and frustration that comes with locking yourself out of your apartment and struggling to get in touch with your roommate.
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SRU 60x60 September 24, 2020
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Performance by Laura Ardner and Faythe Lewis
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Videography by Laura Ardner and Faythe Lewis
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Editing by Laura Ardner
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This untitled short film features footage of a structured improvisation that utilized the staircase and walls. There were two cameras capturing the movement to display different perspectives to show depth and illusion of how the staircase was being used.
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SRU 60x60 September 24, 2020
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Performance by Laura Ardner
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Videography and Editing by Laura Ardner