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"Dance speaks about life's poetic ambiguity and our experience of being in the world."

Vanessa Justice Dance was formally initiated in 2007 as a project-by-project company based in Brooklyn, New York. For each project, Vanessa works with dancers/collaborators to develop new dances and ways of conceiving the choreographic process – their creative process cultivates open, versatile minds not only centered on one's being, but on the possibilities of otherness, toward the expansion of expressive range. They research the materiality of the body, its relationship to gravity, and the poetics of communicating lived experience.

Vanessa shifts her choreographic process between an objectivist and subjectivist approach, with an exploration of formal and abstract aspects of composition, and a study of the psycho-emotional and biodynamic drive behind human movement. Her dances seek to recognize the human body with its functional, contextual, and relational realities, and deeply embedded systems of meaning. Vanessa's dances often superimpose intentions and processes, cultivating unexpected relationships among disparate elements, and often draw on sources outside the field of dance. Trajectories of potential meaning emerge on various levels. Structure is crafted through alterations of presence, tone, and qualitative nuance. Playful ambiguity arises with room for alternate responses.

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