Just a few days before Valentine’s Day, 2024 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow and interdisciplinary artist Lina Azalea Dahbour presents the first program in her “Blind Date” series—Tiny Conversation Hearts.

Tiny Conversation Hearts asks four performers to complete a series of risky tasks: take a singular score (in this case, a newly commissioned score by choreographer Alexa West), go home by their lonesome, create a piece based on the score, and show up on the night of the event to perform their piece at the same time as another artist working in a different medium, with no knowledge of the other artist’s plans. 

In an attempt to depart from the mono dynamic, algorithmically feasible pairings modern technology seeks to offer us, Dahbour has selected two dancers and two musicians with differing and distinctive voices to be paired in this first dance/music cross-genre “Blind Date” experiment. Conceptually oriented, multimedia dance artist Dominica Greene is paired with cathartic, aural channeler Nyhne; geometrically-minded movement investigator Emily Kessler is paired with sonic collagist Holy People.

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