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Sean Thomas Boyt’s work is invested in relationships: performers and their audiences, artists and their collaborators, lovers and their beloved. Positioning their work in a realm of nostalgia, meditation, camp, and fantasy, Boyt transforms PDFs into ballets, dancing bodies into moving pictures, and obnoxious disco into lullabies. By splicing seemingly random (potentially definitely random) worlds together, Sean’s dances are what transpires in the conversations *after* the show. Maybe the next morning, too.
They make things that interrogate questions of technique, abstraction, cuteness, and sometimes even sustainability. (Both the tree kind and the money kind.) J-Pop. Text. Patience. Laundry rooms. Nothing is off-limits. Subverting audiences’ expectations in each work, Sean plays with light, costume, and a diverse array of instruments that you just wouldn’t expect from someone who has no sense of rhythm nor tone. Who is performing for whom? Why does it matter? What are you doing tonight?
“Dance like no one likes you,” STB tells you. And with that, off they go again - making more dance happen.
They make things that interrogate questions of technique, abstraction, cuteness, and sometimes even sustainability. (Both the tree kind and the money kind.) J-Pop. Text. Patience. Laundry rooms. Nothing is off-limits. Subverting audiences’ expectations in each work, Sean plays with light, costume, and a diverse array of instruments that you just wouldn’t expect from someone who has no sense of rhythm nor tone. Who is performing for whom? Why does it matter? What are you doing tonight?
“Dance like no one likes you,” STB tells you. And with that, off they go again - making more dance happen.
STBDancing
Sean Thomas Boyt's collection of choreographic, artistic, and collaborative work.
Photo by Derek Blackman
