Rachel Toburen is a multidisciplinary artist working with paint, photography, perfume, and dance, and she’s in the studio this month talking all about her exploration of memory, mental health, and adult ballet! Rachel uses her artwork to explore memory and the experience of memory, and she shared how those concepts show up in her dancing and choreography. We talked about how sights, sounds, and smells can trigger certain memories and how artwork can change as the mind takes in new experiences and memories evolve. Rachel returned to ballet in 2018 after a nearly 20-year absence from dance and has been training rigorously, even through the pandemic. In 2022, she began exploring the choreographic side of her interests, and this year, she’s working on developing a full short ballet as a retelling of the story of Medusa in five movements. She spoke with me about the experience of returning to ballet and performing as an adult, how she connects her painting and perfume work to dance, and how mental health is a big part of the work she does as she sees dance as a full body and mind experience. Check it out!
Music in this episode:
Waltz of the Flowers - Tchaikovsky
Barroom Ballet - Silent Film Light - Kevin MacLeod
Barroom Ballet - Silent Film Light by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Artist: http://incompetech.com/
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