January 23, 2024
In a live performance of Disentanglement/Re-embodiment: Towards Re-embodying Equality, Goldman and the dancer choreographer Roxanne Steinberg re-entangle the ropes they have disentangled to create a large bird’s nest, incorporating twigs and bits of fabric. With exquisitely tranquil and exacting movements, accompanied by Livia Reiner’s meditative and transportive vocals and harp music, they form an entirely new structure, repurposing the ropes previously used to exploit and subjugate to build an open refuge that nurtures and protects. All three women wear white dresses whose feminine frailty is belied by the power and resoluteness of their gestures.
Towards Re-embodying Equality attempts, through films and performance, to visualize a path to an egalitarian and nonhierarchical society, one that troubles rigid boundaries and fixed identities. While patriarchy produces and enforces binaries, it also creates ambiguous border cases that muck up its clean-cut classifications. Goldman focuses on the murky margins and her work is filled with swirling moving images and bodies in flux. Even her still photographs are often blurred by movement or, when motionless, her subjects and objects dissolve into each other.
—Asti Hustvedt
Performance Stills
Rehearsal Stills by Murielle Sauzot Louiseau