Southwest Regional Festival 2004
March 13-16, 2004, Scottsdale, Arizona
Guest Company
The Mothership Project
Mothership: Dances of the Fluid Feminine is an inter-generational performance
and photography project, created by six Arizona women artists, ages 25-83. 
Breanna Rogers, Jayne Lee, Jennifer Schauffler-Vircsik, Ruth Waddell and
Florence Schauffler have collaborated under the direction of Delisa Myles
to create a performance and photography exhibition that delves into the
questions, mysteries and fears of growing older.
Mothership combines dance, poetry and photography into an allegorical story of shipwreck, memory, relics and entering into the time of past and future.
The project began with Miana Grafals, a photographer from New York City taking photographs of the dancers improvising in the studio and in nature. The photos she took became the seeds for the choreography and poetry that each woman composed. Mothership was created in the round and is viewed that way.
Myles writes:
"Through our process of working in the round with
a spectrum of ages we have had the opportunity to see our womanhood from
many vantage points. Where we are going and where we have been all seem
to occur at once, and this brings us to the present. There is no front
and back to this performance, no place to hide. The concepts of mirror
and the intervolving quality of the feminine energy guided our process.
We have explored the territory of submersion, shipwreck, time capsules,
grief, insanity, surrender and ascent. The scene is set in the space between
water and air and the place where water meets land."
