Eyes of the Skin

A collaborative project between choreographer Jennifer Salk and Maja Petric; exploring the often twisted and delicate nature of tenderness.

A performer holding a chair standing in front of the cracking wall of the collaborative installation.

EYES OF THE SKIN

Eyes of the Skin, is a collaborative project between choreographer Jennifer Salk and Maja Petric. Together, in their own media, they explored the often twisted and delicate nature of tenderness. Maja created a large scale wall that cracked over the course of the dance performance. As the wall was cracking, it let the light through and in so depicted the dichotomy of tenderness that ranges between pleasure and pain.

*Title of the dance performance is inspired by Juhani Pallasmaa’s book Architecture and the Senses: The eyes of the skin.

Two performers standing in front the glow coming from the cracked wall.

A performance about the delicate nature of tenderness executed facing a radiating cracking wall.

A collaborative installation between Jennifer Salk and Maja Petric, executed using their own media.

Exhibited: Meany Theater, Seattle, WA, USA
Year: 2009