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About Thresholds is a collaboration between Lili Maya (Sculpture, Live Video, Set Design), Jude Markey-Smith (Choreography) and me. The video and music were performed live.

Part 1 was performed first in Brescia, Italy in August 2025, and then in October 2025 in Brooklyn at PAGEANT.

The complete work was premiered at MITU580 in Brooklyn on May 30, 2026.

I encourage you to read the post about the project, The Geometry Remains. On making a work that undoes itself.

Individual parts:

Part 1 (dance, sculpture, music):

Part 2 (live video, sculpture, music):

Part 3 (dance, sculpture, music):

Writing about the project:

Last October, some of you joined us in Brooklyn for an early look at our in-progress showing. Today, we are excited to invite you to the premiere of the fully completed work.

Join me, Lili Maya, and choreographer Jude Markey-Smith on Saturday, May 30 at MITU580 for the premiere of About Thresholds.

About Thresholds is a textured, 60-minute performance that unfolds across three distinct sections. Set within a field of sculpture, dance, live video, and sound, the piece explores interior and exterior proportionality as a dynamic framework of orientation—directly influenced by the dancer’s changing pulse.

Performance Details

• Date: Saturday, May 30
• Venue: MITU580 (580 Sackett Street, Brooklyn, NY)
• Time: Doors open at 6:30 PM | Performance begins at 7:00 PM
• Tickets: $14.64

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We look forward to sharing this project with you.

Headphones suggested

The music is based on a 10 note scale derived from a set of 5 natural and prime numbers through a process inspired by Ervin Wilson

The fundamental frequency is 432Hz

Part 2 is in three short movements:

• Mvt 1
• Mvt 2 (a Lilliana Rovelli)
• Mvt 3

Image: Lili Maya, Composition/Performance: James Rouvelle

my friend ev showed me this project.

Rotterdam-based photographer Ari Versluis and profiler Ellie Uyttenbroek have worked together since October 1994. Inspired by a shared interest in the striking dress codes of various social groups, they have systematically documented numerous identities over the last 14 years. Rotterdam’s heterogeneous, multicultural street scene remains a major source of inspiration for Ari Versluis and Ellie Uyttenbroek, although since 1998 they have also worked in cities abroad.

They call their series Exactitudes: a contraction of exact and attitude. By registering their subjects in an identical framework, with similar poses and a strictly observed dress code, Versluis and Uyttenbroek provide an almost scientific, anthropological record of people’s attempts to distinguish themselves from others by assuming a group identity. The apparent contradiction between individuality and uniformity is, however, taken to such extremes in their arresting objective-looking photographic viewpoint and stylistic analysis that the artistic aspect clearly dominates the purely documentary element.

Wim van Sinderen, Senior Curator Museum of Photography, The Hague

you’ll probably find all the people you know somewhere in there – but you probably won’t find your self. hmmmm.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED3oIxZKgU4[/youtube]

nice description of beefheart’s compositional methods in his later work: drum parts derived from throwing metal ashtrays against the wall and swinging shopping bags containing various things, to his exploding note theory, and in-studio compositional/recording techniques.

you can find cardboard cut out sundown on rhapsody.com – it’s the 6th track on ice cream for crow. the part gary refers to begins (i think) around 1:50 and culminates around 2:05.

you can also find an interesting BBC documentary on captain beefheart by searching captain beefheart documentary on youtube.