dropshift’s premiere marked the culmination of 12 months of creative research and is Phase 1 of the work’s production process. Cerniglia’s DWELL/burrow highlights each dancer’s sensory experience of family tradition and history. Built from written archives, interviews, and collective memories of maternal/paternal predecessors, the work physically stacks and dissects lists of words and phrases mined during creative research while considering themes of visibility within the space and the context of time. dropshift collaborates with Scott Rubin, an interdisciplinary musician and improvising violist whose work interrogates relationships between sound and movement through analog and digital means. The music is a product of a collaborative process with the dancers. Text scores, interview excerpts collected by the dancers, and viola improvisations were recontextualized and woven into a tapestry of shifting landscapes that amplify and reframe the bodies.

projects

2024: ROOMS

2024: ROOMS

2024: ROOMS
2023: bloom

2023: bloom

2023: bloom
2022: DWELL/burrow

2022: DWELL/burrow

2022: DWELL/burrow
2021: Dwell

2021: Dwell

2021: Dwell
2020: Fade

2020: Fade

2020: Fade
2020: 10 years of dancemaking

2020: 10 years of dancemaking

2020: 10 years of dancemaking
2019: NOOK: At Our Edges & Lustre

2019: NOOK: At Our Edges & Lustre

2019: NOOK: At Our Edges & Lustre
2018: Invitation No. 1

2018: Invitation No. 1

2018: Invitation No. 1
2017: The Remains

2017: The Remains

2017: The Remains
2016: FloatBrilliance

2016: FloatBrilliance

2016: FloatBrilliance
2015: Imposter/Contained

2015: Imposter/Contained

2015: Imposter/Contained
2014: Imposter/Malleable

2014: Imposter/Malleable

2014: Imposter/Malleable