Abstract Human Support Positions

Abstract Human Support Positions is a duet and a movement play taking place somewhere between memory, constructed dreamscape, and present reality. The work is designed to flow through earnest states of play and wish while exploring ideas of alternative kinship. This work is a shared meditation by the performers—Ian Isles and Chelsea Zeffiro— grounded in a physical research practice and a desire to create space together using movement, light, costume, and sound. 

Performer/*movement generated in collaborative process with*, Ian Isles

Chelsea Zeffiro is a dance artist and performer working in hybrid practice – integrating dance with digital media, theater, film, and writing. She received her MFA as a Dance Fellow at University of the Arts (Philadelphia, PA) under the direction of Donna Faye Burchfield and the mentorship of Jesse Zaritt and Beth Gill. After receiving her BA in Comparative Literature and French from the University of Southern California, she performed, taught and developed work in the United States and France. She has been awarded for contemporary solo performance (Vienna Int’l Ballet Festival, 2016). Zeffiro is the 2018 recipient of San Diego Dance Theater’s Young Choreographer’s Prize and was subsequently produced in their 2019 Live Arts Festival. She served as co-founder and curator of 40 NORTH Dance Film Festival for four years (2015-2018). She utilizes her multidisciplinary background to create works which have been shown/performed at places such as the University of the Arts (Philadelphia, PA), Liberty Station Arts District/San Diego Ballet, and Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. She currently teaches in the Conservatories of Dance and Theater at Coronado School of the Arts. Her recent work has been produced and supported by Los Angeles Performance Practice, DISCO RIOT, the University of the Arts and San Diego Dance Theater.

Recent development of the current work came from a choreographic commission titled “Girldream (1996)” from DISCO RIOT (performances at City Heights Performance Annex, 10th Ave Arts Center, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego) and through residencies produced and facilitated by DISCO RIOT at San Diego Ballet (San Diego, CA) and by Los Angeles Performance Practice @ the Broadwater Theater (Los Angeles, CA). Additional studio/rehearsal space provided by Stage 7 School of Dance.