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Behind Body
on view at Hopkins Hall Gallery
“Touch, no touch.
Together, not together.
What should I know, what shouldn’t.
Blind my eyes, feel my heart.
Devoted to my body”
That's all I have.
As a choreographer, dance filmmaker, dance improviser, dance performer, Department of Dance MFA Andi Pei is interested in interdisciplinary creation. She is committed to integrating her thinking of what happens in the world now into her creation, while constantly emphasizing the personal identity and the sense of belonging to personal history. In her work, she closely combines her dance creations with the film and continues to explore the possibilities of dance film, as well as the fusion and integration of digital and live performances.
Her MFA project, Behind Body, is an exploration about the relationship between the digitalization of the body and the real body. Through perception, inspiration and reflection of the daily life, personal feeling and the meaning of past and present during the Covid-19, some related vocabulary was born. When creating, these words bring personal identity and personal history into interdisciplinary performances and become the initiating point of the movement. By filming the movements in various locations where resonate the most, bring the images to the projected screen and reconnect them with dancer’s real body and live movements. Behind Body Part 1 has been presented in Tethering: Iteration project as an outdoor performance at Chadwick Arboretum in 2020.
