PROJECTS
Falling UP is dance performance in six short story vignettes -an
anthology of self-discovery taking the viewer into an intimate
journey of childhood innocence, exploitation and healing. Set in a
dream like veiled space, the performers incorporate humor and
intrigue in the reassembly of fractured of life experiences.
Falling Up (2006)
Choreography Heather Maloney
Conceptual Design Vivian Marthell, Heather Maloney
Dancers John Beauregard, Heather Maloney
Set & Video Design Vivian Marthell
Technical Director & Lighting Design Gary Lund
Photography Stian Roenning
Sound Design Corey Silverman
Credits
Falling Up is funded in part by the generous contributions of the
Florida International University Department of Dance Vh100 Series
The VH 100 Series is funded by the State of Florida Division of
Cultural Affairs, Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs
and the Board of County Commissioners. This work is made
possible, in part, through a creative residency at The Center Dance
Development in Portland, ME, a collaborative project between
Bates Dance Festival and the New Dance Studio.
Press
“Veil. Rope. Recurring image. “Falling Up,” a performance
presented by the Miami-based artist collective Inkub8, has the
haunting simplicity of a dream”.
Category 305 October (2006)
“Heather Maloney presented her powerful new work “Falling Up” at
FIU, marking a new milestone both for local experimental dance
and for South Florida’s strong integrated ability dance movement
as paraplegic dancer John Beauregard delivered a riveting
performance”
Celeste Fraser Delgado
Miami Sunpost June (2006)
“Choreographer and dancer Heather Maloney, working with set
and video designer Vivian Marthell, relies on the simplest of
elements to convey the lasting impact of sexual abuse on survivors.
When Maloney enters, she is tethered to the doorway by a rope
that constantly snaps her backwards. Later she signals the layers
of trauma as she removes pair after pair of the underwear, laying
each panty on the stage in a straight line. The creepy gaze of the
child molester is represented by a Polaroid camera, wielded by
dancer John Beauregard when he returns to the stage in a wheel
chair. The chair is particularly effective here, as the man’s
character glides back and forth through the woman’s recollections.”
Category 305 October (2006)
Heather Maloney is an east coast based dancer sharing her time
between New York and South Florida. John Beauregard is a South
Florida-based dancer. Vivian Marthell a visual artist is also South
Florida-based.
anthology of self-discovery taking the viewer into an intimate
journey of childhood innocence, exploitation and healing. Set in a
dream like veiled space, the performers incorporate humor and
intrigue in the reassembly of fractured of life experiences.
Falling Up (2006)
Choreography Heather Maloney
Conceptual Design Vivian Marthell, Heather Maloney
Dancers John Beauregard, Heather Maloney
Set & Video Design Vivian Marthell
Technical Director & Lighting Design Gary Lund
Photography Stian Roenning
Sound Design Corey Silverman
Credits
Falling Up is funded in part by the generous contributions of the
Florida International University Department of Dance Vh100 Series
The VH 100 Series is funded by the State of Florida Division of
Cultural Affairs, Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs
and the Board of County Commissioners. This work is made
possible, in part, through a creative residency at The Center Dance
Development in Portland, ME, a collaborative project between
Bates Dance Festival and the New Dance Studio.
Press
“Veil. Rope. Recurring image. “Falling Up,” a performance
presented by the Miami-based artist collective Inkub8, has the
haunting simplicity of a dream”.
Category 305 October (2006)
“Heather Maloney presented her powerful new work “Falling Up” at
FIU, marking a new milestone both for local experimental dance
and for South Florida’s strong integrated ability dance movement
as paraplegic dancer John Beauregard delivered a riveting
performance”
Celeste Fraser Delgado
Miami Sunpost June (2006)
“Choreographer and dancer Heather Maloney, working with set
and video designer Vivian Marthell, relies on the simplest of
elements to convey the lasting impact of sexual abuse on survivors.
When Maloney enters, she is tethered to the doorway by a rope
that constantly snaps her backwards. Later she signals the layers
of trauma as she removes pair after pair of the underwear, laying
each panty on the stage in a straight line. The creepy gaze of the
child molester is represented by a Polaroid camera, wielded by
dancer John Beauregard when he returns to the stage in a wheel
chair. The chair is particularly effective here, as the man’s
character glides back and forth through the woman’s recollections.”
Category 305 October (2006)
Heather Maloney is an east coast based dancer sharing her time
between New York and South Florida. John Beauregard is a South
Florida-based dancer. Vivian Marthell a visual artist is also South
Florida-based.
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