Was that you or the house?

Linda Austin, a dancer/choreographer, and Caroline Woolard, an installation artist, will use their Watermill residency as a user-testing research laboratory for sculptural tools. Austin and Woolard both use objects as catalysts for actions of simple wonder, though Austin is a dancer/choreographer and Woolard is an installation artist. Watermill’s codified respect for the life of objects, as characters in a narrative waiting to unfold, makes it the ideal space for an encounter between dancer and object. Austin and Woolard will use the Watermill Center to align conversations between objects and bodies, using Woolard’s sculptural tools and Austin’s movement to focus on the creation of small miracles with cross-disciplinary dialogue. Misinterpretation, improvisation, and role reversal will produce works of surrealism that are not entirely made up. The dialogue that Watermill allows will fuel a collaborative performance in the spring.