Juliet McMains

Juliet McMains

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Contacting Tango 2023

This intimate videoportrait of Irina Jabsa and Guadalupe Santiago showcases the art of contactango, a fusión of contact improvisation and tango. Bringing the principles of contact improvisation into dialogue with tango not only increases tango’s creative range in terms of body shapes, embrace, and vocabulary, but it interrupts tango’s gendered lead/follow binary. The roles of leader and follower are exchanged so frequently and fluidly that the border between the two roles starts to dissolve.
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External Links 2024

Peering through a purple chain-link fence, a voyeuristic camera reveals a dancer at play. Confined by a fence, bordering a picnic table that surrounds a tree encased in concrete crosshatches, the dancer explores how this architecture impacts her movement. Like Robert Irwin's Nine Spaces Nine Trees, the public sculpture where it was filmed, External Links invites meditation on confinement and freedom. How can movement of our own bodies become a link to experiences external to ourself? An other-worldly soundtrack by composer Paul Mathew Moore raises the possibility that these links might be portals to other dimensions.
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Kinetic Play/Juego Cinetico 2024

Searching for a more personal expression of tango, two veterans of stage tango jettison the high heels and rigid choreography that are the hallmarks of their nightly work. In a rejection of gender roles, they take turns leading and following, initiating and responding. Set to the music of contemporary Argentinian composer Diego Schissi, this portrait captures their ongoing search for a personal expression of tango that is indifferent to its marketability in the tango tourist industry.