(home)Body is a collaboration between choreographer/director Cid Pearlman,  video artist Mara Milam, poet/dramaturge Denise Leto, four commissioned poets, nineteen movement artists, composer Jonathan Segel, and an amazing video crew. It premiered at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, as part of the Rydell Fellows' exhibition, January–March 2022. 

(home)Body had its European premiere September 18-25 at the Viimsi Artium in Estonia as part of the PÕHJA KONN festival.

(home)Body invokes complex relationships between embodiment and place. We explore questions such as What does it feel like to be at home in your body? What are embodied experiences of home across intersections of identities and expressions? With a multiplicity of voices, dancers and poetic imaginaries, the work speaks to ideas centering home and body through personal, experimental, and topical approaches. The films involve site-specific and immersive environments both natural and built. Spaces and bodies interact in a collaborative and choreographic conversation.

Artistic Director: Cid Pearlman
Choreography: Cid Pearlman in collaboration with the performers
Video Artist: Mara Milam 
Lead Poet/Dramaturge: Denise Leto
Bios for (home)Body Lead Artists
(home)Body Poets: JJJJJerome Ellis, Naomi Ortiz, Willie X. Lin, Tanaya Winder
Bios & photos for (home)Body Poets
Performer/Choreographic Collaborators: Jesse Bie, Lisa Brenner, Jet Cawiezell, Angela Chambers, Gerald Casel, Julia Daniel, Ana Elizabeth, Kevin Gaytan, Francis Garciá, David King, Collette Kollewe, Cynthia Ling Lee, Micha Scott, Cynthia Strauss, Alex Mannings, Lyndia McGauhey, Lazlo Pearlman, Alex Santana, Reba Thomas
Original Sound Scores: Jonathan Segel
Text Animation/Texture Design: Spencer Doughtie
Camera Operators: Nicholas Alheit, Prabhjot Randhawa 
Camera Assistant: Erika Staud
Collaborator Bios

Special Thanks: Arts Council Santa Cruz County, Lens Fire Films, UCSC Arboretum, UCSC Music Department, UCSC Online Education, Radius Gallery, Motion Pacific, Cabrillo Dance, Porter College

Cid is honored to have been awarded a Rydell Visual Arts Fellowship at the Community Foundation Santa Cruz for her creative work. This includes $20,000 in unrestricted funds.  

Other artists in the 20/21 cohort include Ann Altstatt, Marc D'Estout and Edward Ramirez. UCSC May Newsletter