d "The seat of artistic delight is between the shoulder blades. That little shiver behind is quite certainly the highest form of emotion that humanity has attained. Let us worship the spine and its tingle. Let us be proud of our being vertebrates, for we are vertebrates tipped at the head with a divine flame. The brain only continues the spine: the wick really goes through the whole length of the candle." - Vladimir Nabokov
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SPINE (email) is a hybrid-arts collective that is dedicated to the exploration of movement, language, technology, and collaboration with other organizations and independent artists. Ninety percent of all SPINE projects are collaborations between the core members of SPINE and another artist(s). We believe that this process helps us stay informed, flexible, and unpredictable!

SPINE creates and produces live and digital art across all mediums, and are committed teachers with backgrounds in theater, dance, film production, and visual art.

Our live work has been produced around the world including Dance Theatre Workshop, NYC, CounterPulse, San Francisco, 3LD Art and Technology Center, NYC, Bloomsbury Theatre, London, and Mercat de les Flors, Barcelona. Our films have been screened at festivals and venues including The Dance on Camera Festival, NYC, Videodanza Festival, Buenos Aires, California Museum of Photography, and The Berkshire Fringe Festival.

SPINE formed in London, England in 1999 where we received a Millennium Festival Award during our first season. We are now based in Brooklyn, New York where our artistic directors continue to work on independent projects, write, and teach in addition to living under the same roof in one creative household.

 

 

"This is part-video-art, performance-art-dance, and it ends the rules of each of those genres...irreverent and engaging"
-NewBerkshire.com

"Their work is of a strong, raw and powerful nature… admirably unindulgent"
-The Guardian (UK)
  "Surgically skillful work that packs an emotional wallop"
-LA Times
"For the most contemporary and genre-blurring work by young cutting-edge Asian American choreographers, look no further than Cory Nakasue of SPINE."
–Gay City News