Tristan Koepke
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Things I'm thinking about: Airport delays Kickass collaborators Institutional power Babes DIY and also do it ALL Face-mask ear tension I...
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Tristan Koepke
Apr 7, 2022
Finally, Fairies!
My new work, Finally, Fairies! premiered at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center’s Dance Theater at the University of Maryland,...
Tristan Koepke
Nov 30, 2021
Score for Saturation
Your skin, simultaneously porous and impermeable. A contradiction. Your skin, saturated with color, with light, the heat of a late...
Tristan Koepke
Nov 1, 2021
Score for Empty Duet
Enter the space. Feeling it empty. Set adrift in a sea of empty. Wash ashore on the phrase. There is a tide. You may experience loops...
Tristan Koepke
May 8, 2021
statement on Impasse
Concrete and crackled walls. Underground. I am back again, my back, again. My skin in this cold, cold room. I am at an impasse. This work...
Tristan Koepke
May 3, 2021
statement on ghosted2
I question a body torn: my body, pulled in multiple directions by unfinished projects, processes that require justification within a...
Tristan Koepke
Apr 30, 2021
script from ghosted2
blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank T: It’s been a year. It’s been a year of dancing along. Dancing…. Alone. It’s been...
Tristan Koepke
Mar 30, 2021
statement on Impossible Pleasure
I conceived of a new project, Impossible Pleasure, as a response to my recent sketch, obifobifo. While both works attend to my body’s...
Tristan Koepke
Mar 2, 2021
statement on obifobifo
In my new multimedia experiement obifobifo, I explore hyperreality, a failure to escape capitalist realism, and a temporally unfixed body...
Tristan Koepke
Feb 19, 2021
Thoughts from Beverly, Beverly, Beverly
Beverly, Beverly, Beverly was first shared in an informal virtual showing at the University of Maryland's School of Theater, Dance, and...
Tristan Koepke
Jan 16, 2021
On The Horizon: Finally, Fairies!
In 2009, I had just finished projects with both the Trisha Brown Dance Company and the Limon Dance Company, and was curious about...
Tristan Koepke
Jan 10, 2021
Simulated Dances For Virtual Spaces
Can you tell which part of this is alive? Spending two weeks isolated in one room during the COVID-19 Pandemic, what is a dance to do?...
Tristan Koepke
Jan 4, 2021
Bodily Sedimentation
All humans continuously process doing and undoing. Being and becoming. Dancing is both a process losing and finding oneself. As...
Tristan Koepke
Dec 25, 2020
Thoughts from I AM IN A BASEMENT
I AM IN A BASEMENT premiered on December 3, 2020, presented online through the Virtual Performance Series at the University of Maryland...
Tristan Koepke
Dec 25, 2020
A Space for Process, Notes, Thoughts
The world needs another blog! Or rather, an imagined audience helps me be accountable to regular practice. And a blog helps me structure...
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