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Alone (Do you Hear Us)?

Original Jucovy works

Alone (Do you Hear Us?) consists of 3 solos performed within spheres and orbits. The Movement motifs are shared but each dancer has individual variants. The music shares these concepts. Each dancer is performing to her own song from the same (Celtic) album however the music is overlaid. At times, one piece or another is dominant but often two or three pieces are heard at the same time The work addresses the sense of following one’s own voice without distraction or wavering. The dancers each must hear their own music exclusively through the mix and the focus they must have in order to carry out their part a main theme of the piece.

375s Alone (Do You Hear Us?)

Colorsong Universe at LICM

ColorSong Universe incorporates movement, music, a paper sculpture and other objects, animated slides of the Colorsong paintings, of artist Susan Ruth Cohen, and special effects. The work depicts a universe of matter, auras and relationships. ColorSong Universe opens with the artist assembling a paper sculpture. When a dancer enters the space and flippantly takes it apart, havoc ensues. Colors and energy are let loose in a flurry of expression and movement. With original music created for the work by Paul Joseph.

2206.2s Colorsong Universe

Earth Trilogy at Greenspace

Earth Trilogy explores the human impact upon the natural world in three sections. The first is based on Isadora Duncan dances that have rhythms and properties of our natural environment at their core, dances that celebrate the wonders of water, earth and air. The second section depicts how humankind has destroyed the precious natural world that we, as a species, have taken for granted. Surreptitiously, our own waste products, a product of our self-indulgence and self-centeredness, destroy us. The final section— the women’s choir Willow—is a statement of possibility, a hymn embodied in music and movement to honor our earth.

1815.1s Earth Trilogy, Fast Forward for Greenspace

Emergence for Video

Original Jucovy works

A made for video version of Emergence, filmed at the LI Children's Museum, in 2008. "Emergence" reflects the concept of systems that come together, break down and ultimately attempt to reform. The work illustrates this concept through allusions to biology, physics and human society. The beginning of the piece reflects formation through biological frameworks. The breakdown is represented by references to viruses invading cells. The collapse is further depicted through explosive, random energy such as the spread of cancerous cells in a body or a society that no longer restrains itself. When this energy burns out, what is left are broken, isolated pieces that attempt to reform and recreate connections. This fails but an underlying force of self-organization is manifest, opening up new possibilities for new systems.

526.7s Emergence for Video