ROOMS offers audiences an immersive open house dance experience set within domestic architecture spaces, and explores sensed memories through movement, film, personal object, and fabric. Built from a creative process grounded in care, comfort, and support, ROOMS sprawls through various spaces of the home it inhabits with luscious and improvisational movement sequences that enable the performers to be flexible, spontaneous, and present. The work premiered at Colvin House in April of 2024.

dropshift’s ROOMS marks 24 months of creative research across three years, and is the culmination of a project that collects sensory recapitulations of our past and explores the act of caretaking a dance.  Each dancer contributes stories, personal objects, and sensed memories of their unique family/cultural identity.  At times, performers jettison these narratives, diving deeply into sensory connections with large fabric textiles and their fellow movers.  The evening is a non-linear experience that encourages guests to be with the performers and also to leave the performers and experience a variety of immersive spaces.  Intimate and spontaneous, dancers share personal mementos and at times, short stories during performance.  ROOMS brings together vignettes from dropshift’s Sense Series: DWELL/burrow (2022), bloom (2023) and objects (2023).  Some vignettes will occur and recur in variation of size and duration.  The evening is not meant to be linear, but asks guests to consider their own comfort during the performance and make space for eating, drinking, exploring the immersive installations, and socializing with other guests.