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Indeterminate Wind Power
Directed and Choreographed by Ginny Jiang
Indeterminate Wind Power is a 70-minute public experimental performance presented at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) that confronts the tension between personal and public space through dance, materials, sound, live music, and risky spatial interaction. Using red threads, precarious chairs, and the vulnerability of the body, the work transforms dangerousness into metaphor and opens a site of negotiation where audiences and performers co-construct the process.
This project synthesizes insights from the challenges of Asian educational systems further sharpened through diasporic experiences in the United States. It integrates personal therapeutic explorations of somatization and amnesia with Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed, framing the performance as a collective inquiry into oppression and its embodied traces. Three central questions guide the work: How does language become distorted and misinterpreted? Can individuals construct boundaries while simultaneously shaping personal, others’, and public spaces without aggression? How can improvisation bring unconscious trauma into consciousness, addressing the layering and somatization of trauma?
Site: University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, October 18, 2024
Performance: Annie Laforet, Sarah Lau, Hope Hanna-Casupang, Alyssa Hernandez, Mia Brooks
Sound Composed by Jae Hoon Kim & Jae Song
Trumpet: Nigel Floreska
Vocals: Smarani
Fiber Art: Xue'er Gao
Photo Art: Ruiying Yang
Photography: Kirk Donaldson
Indeterminate Wind Power is a two-year interdisciplinary, research-based project encompassing site-specific performances, pedagogical workshops on improvisational methodologies, and solo presentations.
Process & Development
- Women Defining Themselves Concert, U-M Dance Performance Studio Theatre, Ann Arbor, MI, May 10, 2024 (solo performance with pianist Kathryn Goodson and cellist Bethany Bagbey)
- MaiOui Danse Arts, Lyon, France, May 1 – May 9, 2024 (Residency)
- Imperfect Future, Soft Projects Art Gallery, Ypsilanti, MI, USA, December 16, 2023, Solo (work-in-progress)
Work funded by University of Michigan Excel Enterprise Fund and University of Michigan School of Music, Theater and Dance Department
