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The Rehearsal Artist

Michelle Ellsworth

NOW — January 2018Ìý

In “The Rehearsal Artist,â€� a new work by CU °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï dance professor Michelle Ellsworth, the artist rotates inside an eight-foot-diameter wooden wheel. The audience sees only her head, encased in a box with an assortment of loose items — dolls, food, tiny furniture, plants. Ellsworth is fixed in position, but the objects all move, prompting reflection about “the nature of stability.â€�

The New York Times proclaimed the work, performed at the American Realness festival in New York in January, “eccentric and marvelously original.�

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Photo by Nicholas Cote