"(4) What should I remember?"

August 2024. The mnemonics community is primarily interested in memory competitions: memorizing the most digits of pi, reciting the order of a stack of playing cards in the least amount of time, etc. But how broadly could mnemonics expand outside of memory competitions?

In Greek mythology, the goddess of memory (Mnemosyne) is the mother of the nine muses, including the muse of dance (Terpsichore). What is at the intersection of mnemonics and dance? Is there something in particular that you want the audience members to remember from your performance and/or performances?

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The first iteration of this project is shown here on the right, created in collaboration with dancer and choreographer Kendall Ramirez. This research direction is inspired by Trisha Brown's "Accumulation" (1971) and Rachel Linsky's Zachor (ongoing).

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