Holly Taylor

Holly Taylor (she/they) is a movement artist, writer, and educator from Providence, RI. She most recently worked as an arts nonprofit administrator (FirstWorks, RI) producing festivals and multi-layered performance residencies, and as a movement composition and technique instructor for Metamorphosis Dance Company's youth program (RI). Her material has been published in PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art (MIT Press) and Yale Dance Theater Journal, and exhibited at AS220’s Resident Gallery. Holly received her B.A. in American Studies from Yale University, with a concentration in culture and performance, and thesis in dance and writing as codependent feminist practices.

Title of Project

The Closeness of These Efforts Being Shared: Erotic Relational Movement, or What Happens When We Move Together And We're Tired

Description of Project

Drawing from Erin Manning's concept of relational movement, Audre Lorde's erotic, and Denise Ferreira da Silva's difference without separability, this project experiments with the potential of shared movement to fashion new ways of being in the world together. The project takes as a point of departure Rosie Herrera's dance work Carne Viva to specifically consider how we might move, together, through fatigue and into embrace. The symposium presentation incorporates practical movement experiments to explore this embodimentheory together.