Listen Hold Listen hold listen hold…
Choreography: Robert Moses, for and with the dancers
Dancers: Bliss Kohlmyer and Andee Scott
Sound: Yoed Nir; Ada Limón’s “The Real Reason;” text by Robert Moses, Bliss Kohlmyer, and Andee Scott; Georgs Pelécis
Note: This is a portrait of these two women – their friendship, their support for one another, their challenging of each other, their quiet privy, and their shorthand ways. Being on the outside looking in, it is a rendering of tender, fierce, supportive, unrelenting sisterly womanly love.
Andee Scott
Andee Scott is a dance artist based in St. Petersburg, FL. In recent years, her focus on dance as public art has led her to creating, curating, and producing large-scale, site-specific dance performance events including Dance in the Time of Coronavirus, a socially-distanced dance performance series, as well as Our Town and Our Trail. Her choreography with dance, video, and projection has been commissioned by dance companies and university programs, and her dances have been produced and performed nationally and internationally, most recently in Sweden, Mexico, and China. As a dancer, Andee was a member of Sharir+Bustamante Danceworks and Blue Lapis Light in Austin, TX, and Deja Donne in Italy, and she performed with David Dorfman Dance and AlienNationCo., under the direction of Johannes Birringer. Currently, she is in rehearsal with a group of dancers working on a new performance project with choreographer Jeanine Durning. She was selected as a resident artist at Djerassi in 2011 and is on faculty at the University of South Florida in Tampa.
Bliss Kohlmyer
Bliss Kohlmyer (Co-Artistic Director of project agora, 2010-2020) was in residence at Bates Dance Festival and created works for the San Francisco International Arts Festival, Dance Gallery, Breaking Ground, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Her collaborative work with pianist Svetozar Ivanov (Sound Moves Duo) has been presented in various forms at universities throughout the US and Europe. Bliss’ choreographic work has been commissioned by LINES Ballet Summer Program, Péndulo Cero Danza Contemporánea (Mexico), Tampa City Ballet, Jacksonville Dance Theatre, Robert Moses’ Kin (San Francisco), and Sarasota Contemporary Dance Company, among others. Her tutorial on “Dance Making and Watching” was published by Human Kinetics in 2021. And, her collaborative film, Murmurs of the River, has been accepted to numerous film festivals. In New York City, she danced and toured internationally with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and the Sean Curran Company. In San Francisco, she danced with Janice Garrett and Dancers, Robert Moses’ Kin, and the San Francisco Opera Ballet. She received her MFA in Dance from the University of Washington in 2011 and is currently an Associate Professor of Dance at the University of South Florida.
