Play
For many of us, our very first playmates are our siblings. Sibling relationships can be fraught and full of mischief, as is the case with the sisters in this dance theater piece I created for the Figment Festival on Governors Island some years ago. In this piece, the sisters attempt an elegant dance that devolves into violence, and then battle in an earnest imitation of martial artists. I toyed with the footage to make it seem like old home movies, and to make it more playful.
Choreography: Christy Walsh
Dancers: Laure Duverger and Christy Walsh
Videography: Spyros Stefanou
Post-production: Christy
Original performance produced by FIGMENT FESTIVAL, Governor’s Island, New York.
Christy Walsh is based in New York, USA.
Christy Walsh is a New York-based multidisciplinary artist who works in dance, photography and video.
Walsh has been a dancer, choreographer or teacher for numerous companies and schools in the United States, Greece and Korea.
She has created and performed in evening-length theatrical works and site-specific performances with musical and visual-arts collaborators in the United States and in Greece.
Her videos and photographs have been presented in festivals, galleries and commercial spaces all over the world.