see/her/bloom/hide/see

 

BFA Capstone project by Alyssa Simpson reimagined for the screen.

Choreography & performance: Alyssa Simpson

Music: 3 130, Michael Wall and a soundscape design by Alyssa Simpson

Video & editing: Alyssa Simpson

This work was made in the pits of anxiety, discomfort, beauty, and chaos. As Jenny Slate says it, ‘This is the pits. The pits are also the seeds. The pit is also a deep place with an actual bottom. You could argue that the bottom of the pit is where you plant the start of the thing that is made to travel to the light. You could prove, if you tried to or wanted to, that the bottom of the pit is of course the start of getting up to the top.’ So here is my attempt at growth.