Summary Of Stable By Taylor Auslander

In this piece, “Stability”, by the choreographer Taylor Auslander, the dancers use their arms/hands to convey the meaning of holding onto something. The “holding on” represents holding onto a person. The dancers wiggle and drop their bodies. There is a unison part where they all walk together and turn heads in the same direction. Part of the group wiggles and drops their bodies again. The dancers wiggle by moving their shoulders in a wavy movement and then go down and roll back up. The dancers use strong movements and abstractions in the dance. The dancers tend to repeat the same movements throughout the dance. In the dance the performers do a lot of pushing and kicking with the arms and legs. Also a ton of bending of the knees (Plié) and spinning