Sun Jul 5 - 8:00pm-10:00pm
SunTrust Film Screening Room (3rd Floor)

“The body is like a sentence that invites us to reimagine it, so that its real meaning becomes clear through an endless series of anagrams” (Hans Bellmer). "Splitting the Difference" explores ideas of self and subject by presenting a history of the body through the lens of spectacle and image. This choreographic solo work proposes an alien body with a very present awareness of the subject within. Using physical sensation and text, it connects to its spectator empathetically, creating an opening through which the viewer can identify personally, while seeming to say, “This body is your body, too.” This work is funded in part by the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Kelly Bond is a DC-based choreographer and performing artist. This summer she is co-curating with the artists of 6months1location the In-Presentable Festival in Madrid where she will premiere Splitting the Difference. In 2008, Kelly participated in the choreography research program ex.e.r.ce 08 under the artistic direction of Xavier Le Roy at the Centre Choregraphique National de Montpellier. She holds an MA in European dance-theatre practice from Laban in London.