how hard will you hold me?

“How Hard Will You Hold Me?” explores what happens when love, good intentions, miscommunication, and long-held resentment finally boil over. As two people struggle to understand one another, the work asks whether we can ever truly know another person—and whether the act of constantly trying can in fact pull us further apart.

Perhaps deep love is accepting what we can never know.

8 minutes - 2 dancers

Performed at Dancer’s Demand Action at Abron’s Arts Center, New York, NY and Goodyear Arts in Charlotte, NC. Photo Erica Maclean. Score by Bre Short and Mother’s Love by Vernon Spring.