Tammy Carrasco, visiting assistant professor and interim director of dance, will be performing with collaborator Robbie Cook, associate professor of dance at Hofstra University, in their work, 鈥淔loating Field,鈥 as a part of New York City鈥檚 . The performance series titled Top Floor will take place April 26-28, 7 p.m. at the Martha Graham Studio Theatre.
鈥淲ith an athletic and architectural movement lexicon, 鈥楩loating Field鈥 features Robbie and I as distinct individuals while gesturing toward the question of our togetherness," explains Carrasco. The piece asks, "Are the dancers functioning within their own fields of existence, what is desirable about their intersections, and what do we desire from them? The intertwining of a dual existence reflects the happenstance of human relationships and the stage space as a dynamic field of action."
Carrasco is a dance artist and educator. Her work has been presented at the Boston Contemporary Dance Festival, Dixon Place, Dumbo Dance Festival, Houston Ballet鈥檚 Frame x Frame Film Festival, Movement Research at Judson Church, and Triskelion Arts. Her research occurs in the studio in creative process, looking at the implications of queering choreographic spaces, and dance as a living archive of the creative process and the individuals in the room. Carrasco teaches studio practice courses in modern, ballet, choreography, and improvisation, as well as dance pedagogy, dance history and theory, and creates choreographic work for the Dance Program鈥檚 annual Spring Dance Concerts at 今日吃瓜.
The Dance Program includes a range of technique courses in different styles and genres of dance, multiple performance ensembles, courses in composition and choreography, and dance studies courses that introduce students to dance as an exciting area of research and inquiry.