TRACKING PARALLEL
“TRACKING PARALLEL” is the live evening-length dance part of WHAT IS ESSENTIAL.
Central to “TRACKING PARALLEL” is the inclusion of long-time collaborators, both disabled and non-disabled, including veteran HLD dancers Jillian Hollis, Jeffrey Freeze, Nathan Trice, Leslie Taub, Nico Gonzales, Roxanne Young, Henry Holmes and Meredith Fages and composers Ximena Borges, Randall Woolf, Ainesh Madan, Marty Beller, and Chris Brierley.
Ultimately “TRACKING PARALLEL” is about resilience. Not sentimental but haunting; fractured; repetitive; a journey going nowhere but here. The cast of nine embodies the unpredictability of life and our attempts to impose order within the chaos.
Heidi and her mother Sandra
“TRACKING PARALLEL’s genesis lies in the 55-year gap between my mother’s brain tumor surgery at age 33 and my surgery in January of last year. But “TRACKING PARALLEL” is not about illness or disability but rather about the universal experience of dealing with upheaval in our lives-and we have so much upheaval these days; about each dancer tracking parallel with themselves, their relationships, their circumstance. It is about letting go because we have to, and letting go because we want to; about never touching in our separate journeys but intermittently connecting very intimately. Amid the chaos we aim to create beauty, not in spite of it, but because of it.
The score, which I am composing, reflects the many layers of the work. At its foundation are the sounds of an MRI machine. My surgeon recently explained to me that the protons the machine is analyzing track parallel, another layer to explore. But to me the MRI represents most importantly a point of discovery and change. The score will weave in beautiful music composed over the years for me. A looking back to move forward.
At the root of all my work is my mission to, through vulnerability, openness, and beautiful art, draw all individuals and communities into our questioning and our curiosity.”
- Heidi Latsky
