Runtime: 25 minutes

Join dancer Kaja Irwin for a talk and demonstration of her process. 

Being terrified by snakes in real life while intrigued by their symbolism and what they represent, join Kaja as she shares her deep dive into her personal relationship with snakes. She is interested in embodying a snake’s life stages, and manipulating her body to transform into aspects of the snake, or what it interacts with. Kaja will be sharing her explorations of how her body and movement can be both the puppet and the landscape. Her experimental process includes sharing physicalized pieces that may or may not make it into the finished performance, along with behind-the-scenes video, and costume and puppet development.