Self Help (Work in Progress, 2024-2026)
Self Help is a solo performance work that fuses contemporary dance, clowning, theater, and installation art. This one-woman show uses the outlandish prescriptions of health, wellness, and beauty culture in 2024 as task-based scores for exploring ways to cure heartbreak, mitigate grief, and reckon with misogynistic perspectives on mental illness that white womanhood continues to uphold.
PLAYFIGHT: UNPROFESSIONAL WRESTLING THEATER
February 17th, 2024 | Mayo Street Arts, Portland, ME Accessibility info and tickets here
July 13th and 14th, 2023 | The Foundry, Cambridge, MA Accessibility Info and Tickets Here
June 26-July 2nd, 2023 | RVK Fringe Festival, Reykjavík, Iceland https://rvkfringe.is/
PLAYFIGHT, a new dance-theater work by Dani Robbins, explores the world of professional wrestling through two characters in constant relational flux. As the duo assumes a collection of increasingly unreliable personas, they dissolve into a chaotic pool of text and movement, allowing moments of collaboration and surprising tenderness to surface.
Performance, direction, and design: Dani Robbins in collaboration with Sophia Eliana
Maine MiniFest (January 12-14, 2024)
Maine MiniFest is a biannual gathering of Maine dance artists that strives to enrich Maine’s dance community, foster collaboration and connection, and work against scarcity-based cultures in art communities. This weekend-long event brings together Maine’s diverse dance-making community—from college students to established artists—to connect over workshops, panels, and nourishing meals, dreaming into the future of what dance can be in our state.
sites of grace/rooms of grief/floors for dancing (Work in progress 2022-2024)
Public outdoor performances planned for spring/summer 2023
How can we hold our grief for a changing planet in the same way that we might recognize the death of a loved one? This work for six performers uses voice, movement, and natural objects to construct small rituals for recognizing a passage between worlds. Traveling the length of a beach, this piece responds directly to the transition between land and sea as the New England coast is transformed by climate change.