Photos by Scott Shaw

Skidding Abodes was performed live and adapted into a dance film. Georgia b Smith choreographed this piece, wrote out the storyboard for the film, acted as director of choreography and cinematography, as well as edited the footage into the final work.

"Skidding Abodes" questions the notion of home, as related to location, and of home as a phenomenological zone within the human body. Each performer is harnessed to a single light which hangs several feet above their heads. This light creates a luminous perimeter around each performer. In a sense, light is the most reduced essence of a room; a room that travels with a given figure; a room that cannot be left behind. The movement score stemmed from the performers' personal journeys of relocation in a globalized world, their own journies to and from their own figurative and geographic homes.