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Choreography & Performance: Nichele Van Portfleet & Chang Liu (Leo)

Installation: Nichele Van Portfleet & Chang Liu (Leo)

Stage & Sound Design: Nichele Van Portfleet & Chang Liu (Leo)

Videography: Chang Liu (Leo)

Costume: Nichele Van Portfleet

Documentation: Benjamin Sandberg 

Instruction: Brent Schneider  

Produced in 2016 

Premiered at School of Dance, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, US

Concept: 

how we are two is an interdisciplinary installation-performance that investigates flexuous binary relationships—masculine and feminine, queerness and normativity, West and East, white and non-white, organicity and manufacture, innocence and corruption, wholeness and wound. 


Set in the architectural verticality of a stairwell, the piece unfolds on the ground floor, inviting the audience to witness from above, evoking both surveillance and contemplation. A projected video acts as both an omnipresent force—hand, power, manipulation—and as a shifting canvas for live choreography. At times, it is a shadow, a witness, a stage. Wind chimes suspended in the space transform the dancers’ movements into subtle echoes that resonate across floors, threading sound, body, and environment together.  


The work asks: 

  • How do we become in relation to another? 

  • How do we belong, resist, transform, and reimagine ourselves within systems that divide? 

how we are two is a meditation on coexistence, duality, and the possibility of rebirth through embodied dialogue

Nichele Van Portfleet & Chang Liu (Leo)

2016

how we are two

performance art + installation art / dance + choreography

Salt Lake City, US

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