I’m this many!

As a part of The Outlet Dance Project’s 2023 festival held at Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton New Jersey, this piece was choreographed to capture the essence of being a child in a new place. And what better setting for this than Brooklyn-based Isometric Studio’s sculpture Cloud Swing, a grand cobalt blue whimsical swingset with wheelchair-accessible swings? After many visits and choreography sessions in various outdoor park spaces, this piece was created as a playful dialogue between body, space, swings, and momentum, all while inviting the audience to feel the effervescence of that new jungle gym they encountered when they were children. It’s a piece meant to spread and activate the visceral joy that seems to enter dormancy in our adult bodies. Joy is as timeless as that little rush at the undercurve of a swing in motion.

Photos by Jonathan Caverly.