Marie Garlock, PhD: Mobilizer. Educator. Co-creator.

Improvisation Video

Performance Excerpts Video

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Improvisation Clips

  • Dreaming Health Justice

    “DT3” form of improvisational movement + story (interplay method, dance-talk x 3), for a project co-led, co-created with people facing advanced cancers + life-threatening illnesses

  • Carrack / Made of Oak / 21C

    improvisational installation in historic bank vault for Carrack Gallery, independent no-commission durham arts venue with provided sound score + hafiz poetry

  • Committed: The Musical

    improvising with script-in-development for project honoring + imagining new way of engaging bipolar, hospitalization, + community care experiences; co-devised staged reading + collaborative group production

Performance Clips

  • Flipping Cancer

    Co-created from oral histories, devising workshops, ethnography in policy + cultural change movements with people facing advanced / stage IV cancers who become healthcare + environmental justice advocates

  • Harambee Collective

    Community performance with Harambee Collective, bantaba, Mandiani (Roberts Joila), Aké (Chuck Davis)

  • Arts + Social Change Global Conference

    UNC African Studies Center, honoring poet Dr. Mīcere Gīthae Mūgo (bridge with audience members after mentees’ embodied poetry performances, co-directed for an interdisciplinary performance research course)

Notes

  • As someone not so great at self-representation while experiencing / offering the more shining technical moments of dance performances / dance theatre (than are shown here), this project opportunity + your inspiring multi-modal methods of collaboration + devising for l/are we dreaming lit a spark in me to apply, anyway. …So: thank you!

  • Areas not well-represented in these 2 minute video clips but foundational to my performance + devising experiences: group-collaboration, weight sharing, floor work / inversions and public performance installation work (which all have better photographs than film at this point).

  • This is based on the nature of many projects where the focus is the community’s experience + confidentiality — e.g., the partnership is with people who have health or student privacy protections, or the piece is rooted in an important but personal life event less easeful to film or to share for an audition (funeral / memorial, community gathering around a person with illness, interfaith grief or site-responsive rituals).