NOISE REDUCTION

A Practice of Listening Deeply

(2025)

NOISE REDUCTION is an evening-length contemporary dance work about listening. The piece excavates listening practices, exploring their capacity for harm and liberation. Ten dancers navigate the space as individuals and as a community, intently listening to their own bodies, communicating as a collective, and at times, demanding the attention of outside authority. NOISE REDUCTION boldly questions how communities should engage with artists, and vice versa, by asking what critical perspectives need to be amplified in this historical moment. At times built on improvisational tasks, the work embodies listening practices that center the body. Dancers verbally cue each other – stop, return, speed up, slow down – to develop movement composition in real time, compelling audiences to imagine the listening practices they might cultivate in their own lives.