UPCOMING:
July 1, 2025 - June 30, 2027
Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist (RCA), New York Live Arts

January 2026
Work-in-progress showing for Live Artery at New York Live Arts during APAP

Fall/Winter 2026
Premiere at New York Live Arts

this is the beginning, this is the end interrogates the phenomenon of history repeating itself through a two-part, unison, non-unison, non-hierarchical, canon dance. The current social and political challenges facing this country and the world at large–a threatened democracy, white supremacy, lack of public health strategy–are nothing new, so contextualizing and reflecting on history’s patterns and cycles is essential. This piece examines personal, artistic, and historical patterns and how context and time moving forward inherently create change. Performed by an ensemble of 6 dancers and 2 musicians, this work considers these socio-political challenges and the cyclical arc of my own artistic history, through cascading waves of intricate and personal movement, holding space for order and chaos, familiar and unfamiliar, building up and tearing down as we move forward.

During our Pillow Lab residency at Jacob's Pillow in March 2025, we developed this is the beginning, this is the end during a 10-day intensive working period culminating in a public work-in-progress showing.

The above Inside the Pillow Lab film was directed and produced by Nel Shelby Productions. The 2024-2025 Pillow Labs received lead support from: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation © 2024 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Inc.

To watch the video with subtitles, please go HERE.

At the Pillow, I collaborated with dancers Lena Engelstein, Wendell Gray II, Molly Heller, Symara Sarai, and Hsiao-Jou Tang; musicians Jennae Santos and Ryan Seaton; and writer-in-residence Lauren Slone. Together, we advanced the project through improvisational practices, structured material, and reflections on past and present strategies for survival and change.

this is the beginning, this is the end has been supported in part through residencies at Marble House Project, Milvus Artistic Research Center, LMCC’s RehearsalWeek, the Pillow Lab at Jacob’s Pillow, and Loghaven, as well as a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award (2024). this is the beginning, this is the end is being commissioned, produced, and premiered by New York Live Arts as part of the Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist Program (RCA), with lead funding from Rockefeller Brothers Fund.