NANCY ELLEN MILLER, PHD
  • Home
  • About
    • Intake Form
    • Rates
  • Musings
    • Modern Muses >
      • Robert Harrison
      • Russell Smith
      • Kenneth Goldsmith
      • Matthew Remski
      • Fred Korthagen
      • Derek Beaulieu
    • Commissioned Writing
    • Musings & Reflections >
      • The Conscience Is A King
      • Mind Toggling: Moving Mindfully Between Focus and Unfocus
      • Ways to Overcome the Inner Critic
      • To Bee or Not to Bee
      • Sense Rituals
      • Can the Imagination Save Us?
    • Research/Creation >
      • The Real Susanne Linke
      • dust stone circle >
        • dust
        • stone
        • circle
    • Dance and Video Art >
      • new dance
      • metamorphosis
      • the injured cat
      • the marionette and the mirror
      • blindfellen
      • a journey from magic
      • how to fall
  • testimonials
  • contact
  • subscribe

dust

"Dust" is the first chapter of long poem based on site-specific performance work of a modern-day ruin - my mother's childhood home - and the curation of an archive of my mother's memory. The chapter uses erased texts of my mother's letters to her mother during a time of illness, a text by Freud, ​The Mystic Writing Pad, and that of The Snowgoose, a tale by Paul Gallilo. The poetry explores themes of longing and loss and attempts to recover a human body through art. To document the process of writing this chapter using movement improvisation, I filmed a sequence that integrates fragments of texts and the movement of my own physical body with the movement of the ocean, the wind through the near vacant branches and as well as the memories that "moved" through me at the time of the performance.
© COPYRIGHT 2017. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
  • Home
  • About
    • Intake Form
    • Rates
  • Musings
    • Modern Muses >
      • Robert Harrison
      • Russell Smith
      • Kenneth Goldsmith
      • Matthew Remski
      • Fred Korthagen
      • Derek Beaulieu
    • Commissioned Writing
    • Musings & Reflections >
      • The Conscience Is A King
      • Mind Toggling: Moving Mindfully Between Focus and Unfocus
      • Ways to Overcome the Inner Critic
      • To Bee or Not to Bee
      • Sense Rituals
      • Can the Imagination Save Us?
    • Research/Creation >
      • The Real Susanne Linke
      • dust stone circle >
        • dust
        • stone
        • circle
    • Dance and Video Art >
      • new dance
      • metamorphosis
      • the injured cat
      • the marionette and the mirror
      • blindfellen
      • a journey from magic
      • how to fall
  • testimonials
  • contact
  • subscribe