Directed by Jordan Fuchs from choreography developed in collaboration with Melissa Sanderson, Configure is a 90-minute performance installation for 10 dancers created for an audience free to come and go as it likes. Featuring pairs of dancers engaged in a meditative alignment of bones and body shapes, Configure is as much a visual spectacle as a performance, challenging borders between visual and performing arts, between dance and sculpture. It is  performed to an original sound score by the Denton-based composer Leoncarlo Canlas.

Featuring the dancers: Annalise Boydston, M.J. Bryce, Daniel Garcia, Whitney Geldon, Ethan Gonzalez, KD Milligan, Ashley Petersen, Lily Sloan, Kiara Tyalor and Breana Young

Format: A durational performance installation for an audience free to wander through the space and come and go as they like. One night only!

The performance, supported by a 2024 GDAC ARTIST MICRO-GRANT is free!

Jordan Fuchs is Professor and Head of the Dance Division at Texas Woman’s University, the founder of the Texas Dance Improvisation Festival and a former Fulbright Specialist. His choreography for stage, screens, museums and outdoor spaces is grounded in improvisational practice, specifically the bias towards disorientation, sensation and process of contact improvisation. His choreographic research focuses on the crafting of relationships between dancers, whether spatially through the use of counterpoint or through the touch-based partnering. More recently his research has focused on language-based prompts for movement generation and on blurring boundaries between the visual and performing arts through dance as sculpture, painting and photograph. His choreography has been presented across the US and internationally in Europe, Asia and Australia. He holds a BA in Religion from Oberlin College and an MFA in Choreography from Ohio State University. www.jordanfuchs.org, @jfchs11