In the last of her series of three audio interviews, Halie Bahr interviews dance and performance artist Dominica Greene, who just left Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company after two seasons. Dominica also recently produced A Shedding, which you can learn more about here and here. In this conversation, she tackles many questions near and dear to our hearts. How can we make the most of the tremendous potential of young, emerging dance artists – particularly dance makers of color and queer artists – in Salt Lake City? What are universities, companies, and institutions (including loveDANCEmore) doing to make performance creation more possible and equitable by subsidizing rehearsal space?
She also discusses her own processes as an author of various kinds of work and as a curator and activist within the various communities she exists in, and how the pandemic has reframed all of these roles and the questions that comprise the work. As the photograph by Marissa Mooney above illustrates, Dominica’s work is currently interested in the relationship between bodies, the earth and earth, as in the soil itself. This is a conversation not to be missed — the kind of dialogue that sparks innovative ways of working and more dances worth seeing.