Carolyn Pampalone Rabbers

Lives and works in St. Joseph, MI, USA

Artist statement

My current research explore somatic healing practices and identity politics. Building empathy and relationships are my main goals within each project. My work as CPR Dance: Inhale Movement proposes movement as fundamental to existence as breath. In process and in affect, I focus on breathing life, cultivating life, dancing within artistic collaboration, relationships, memories and moving experiences. I have cultivated my interests in performing and creating dance movement-based works by lensing my desires through alethic vision, and through utilizing improvisational scores, theatrical elements, and technology. I pursue a spiritual sense of connection anchored in quantum physics while exploring emergent strategy through permaculture-based explorations in pedagogy and research creation approaches. I am open to multiple strucutres in format, and currently my work explores creating through film, site specific works, and staged works. I like to challenge myself with building value in my art for what we value as part of our societal time, rooting it in a deeper context of accessibility. By intentionally choosing open formats, I enjoy exploring how technology can be utilized in experiencing art and bending the edges of when the art experience starts/stops. I am inspired by the overlapping intergenerational pedagogical approaches in multiple modern foundational and contemporary techniques.

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