Rubble Bodies
Rubble Bodies is an extension of Holt’s solo: Apples and Pomegranates. The process for Rubble Bodies relies on improvisation and contingency, meaning that Rubble Bodies’ main collaborator, Luke Wyland (composer) mix and remix new ideas and archival methods in order to manifest new expressions of Rubble Bodies wherever they have an opportunity to present it.
As Wyland distorts layers of sound to produce an emotive acoustic environment that recalls the nostalgia of 90s Pacific Northwest grunge, Holt channels her riot grrrlhood with a fugue of raw vocals and compulsive physical counterpoints. The discordant tension in their personas forces meaning to slip, rattle, resist, and ignite into form. Rubble Bodies plays with stand-up comedic timing-the newest frontier of feminist invasion. It plays with being a band in a dance, one that knows it’s being watched and performs unabashedly. It picks up collaborators in different cities: trombonist Will Willis in New Orleans where their Trombone playing signals a funeral procession, an army advance, a parade that marches on; visual artist Elizabeth Malaska in Portland who creates a tapestry of symbolic feminine and female, of superheroes, of an earthy landscape built on underpinnings from Greek mythology.
Holt’s choreography highlights dissociating patterns in the performers’ bodies, volatile facial expressions, and uncanny juxtapositions of physical emotions in order to seek potentiality and invite sensation.
Through an extensive process of researching movement, voice, electronics, through Rubble Bodies, Wyland and Holt reframe and expand performative expectations of a traditional dance performance.
