to whom or what do you bow?

Closed Loop of Consanguinity is a performance project by emily liptow & Carol Laursen. We draw from our practices in physical theater and contact improvisation to explore the physicality of the bow in its multitude of expressions and play with the edges of intimacy with various manifestations of the divine. Improvisational in structure and rooted in movement research, the work considers a few questions: To whom or what do we bow? What do we look up to? Or down upon? How does this manifest in our bodies and relationships with one another? We move through these questions by embodying expressions of power, surrender, devotion, dominance, and right relationship.