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Splitting the Difference

Words and Photos by Lillian Cho.

The body is like a sentence that invites us to reimagine it, so that its real meaning becomes clear through an endless series of anagrams.
–Hans Bellmer

The newest piece by cutting-edge DC-based choreographer, Kelly Bond, is being performed as part of the fallFRINGE which is featuring three favorite prior Fringe performers in order to raise proceeds for the future of the Capital Fringe Festival held every summer in DC.

Splitting the Difference explores ideas of self and subject by presenting a history of the body through the lens of spectacle and image. This choreographic solo workproposes an alien body, a trained body, a historical body–all with an acute awareness of the subject within. Using physical sensation and text to connect to its spectator empathetically, an opening is created through which the viewer can ask: What would an anagram of my own body look like? Splitting the Difference creates an anagram of the body through an arrangement of segments or actions.  No segment alone gives a cohesive picture of the body, but by seeing the segments in a certain order, one can gain an understanding of a body’s histories, happenings, and undertakings that have contributed to its current state.

All photos and words after the jump:

Kelly Bond is a DC-based choreographer and performing artist. Her most recent endeavors include the co-curation of the In-Presentable Festival in Madrid with the other artists of 6MONTHS1LOCATION. She holds an MA in European dance-theatre practice from Laban in London and is a Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Scholar alum.

Splitting the Difference
Fort Fringe-The Shop
610 L Street, NW
November 13-22, Fri. 9pm; Sat 4 pm; Sun Nov 15 4pm & Sun Nov 22 9:30 pm
capitalfringe.org for full schedule

More photos HERE!