Choreography / Avery Martin

Choreography

Avery Martin

Ekphrasis Content Dorothea Notes: Tanning’s “Still in the Studio”

II. Light I. Body III. Decay

blushing knee cocked sideways

a step forward in invitation

join this striving dance haunt

spider arm sloughing flesh in the acid of the scity

sliding up the thigh

leaking hips announce birth p o u r s in

light along grilles

round

and solid

an unexpected curve

across the buttocks

elbow pulls away in languorous smears of body

tension drip

tinted angle over the

strains to enter chaos of creation

twist

twist

stretch

blurred spine crawls forward

vibrations across the table,

pulse across the skull an intake of breath

a pounding bass line contracting

contracting and the shoulders roll back

contracting adjusting ribs to hold color within ripe chest yearns

forward

red halo blurs to light

into the

hazy comfort

glow

of reaching

hovers just beyond reaching

to forge