bone, mauve, and eggshell blue (2020)
Choreography and Performance: Ani Javian
Sound: field recordings from Yerevan, Armenia edited by by Aaron Michael Butler, with "Groung" by Zabelle Panosian
Lighting Design: David Glista
Never Before Never Again Festival, curated by the Lovelies
Triskelion Arts, Brooklyn, NY
January 16, 2020
Keshet Center for the Arts
Albuquerque, NM
February 22, 2020
Barn Dances, curated by Nathalie Jonas
Private residence, Philipstown, NY
July 27, 2019
bone, mauve, and eggshell blue is a memoir and a form of commemoration to the history of my female Armenian ancestors. The work cites cultural imagery and traditions as an embodied succession of impressions and iconographies. Utilizing family photos, heirlooms, and field recordings from a research trip to Yerevan, Armenia, bone, mauve, and eggshell blue aims to excavate the histories that I have inherited, asking "How is my body, in this time and space, historic?"