Fallacies blurs the lines between original source and personal interpretation, constructing dance from a dancer’s perspective. Distorting referential choreography to reveal new patterns and physical possibilities, Fallacies makes invisible embodied histories - visible.

Commissioned & Presented by: Amanda + James - Sightlines at Coffey Street Studios
Produced by: Amanda + James
Performers: Nattie Trogdon & Hollis Bartlett
Original Composition & Sound Design: Glenn Potter-Takata
Lighting Design: Sawyer Smith
Photography: Elyse Mertz
Videography: Alex Romania

PERFORMANCE HISTORY
LMCC Arts Center at Governors Island /Open Studios Session 2 / Governors Island, NY / December 2 2023
Coffey Street Studios / Sightlines / Brooklyn, NY / May 20, 21, & 24, 2023


This work was created in part through residences and support from Marble House Project, Coffey Street Studios, Amanda + James, LMCC, 14th street Y and The Arts Center at Governors Island.

“Who are we when we are in front of people? Who are we when we’re pretending to be someone else? Do we transmute, or reveal ourselves, showing the gap between who we are and who we are trying to be?”

How unnerving, to watch someone cup their face, or do the wave with their arms, but not do it for you. Or to watch someone imitate an untrained dancer (Napoleon Dynamite) with all the verve of conservatory training. What is a movement without its context? In this space between non-performance and performance, the piece wavers between entertaining and disconcerting.

Review by No Rui-Piin Weiss
 Sightlines Writer-in-Residence