Choreography
Writing on the body what is written on the soul.
I devoutly believe that through art we can touch the lives and hearts of others. I demonstrate this commitment to bettering the world around me by designing each choreography with a clear purpose and heartfelt commitment. I use elements of the theater including narrative structure, text, multimedia, and highly physical performance while abstracting concrete themes about our humanity, presenting dance that invites the viewer to impose their own understanding on each work. I am bringing the audience on a journey with the performers onstage; I am turning the soul inside out to be shared and witnessed. This process of sharing brings each of us closer to ourselves and closer to those around us. I aim to emotionally or intellectually educate and empower all members of society through this art-making. This is how I can begin to enact social change: by spreading awareness, building tolerance, and creating connections within my art.
Hamlet
(2018)
A sci-fi, cyberpunk, gender bending, reimagining of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
A Duet with Melissa
(2017)
A multimedia dance about two sisters, separated by distance.
Duet Series with Melissa Hands
(2018/2019)
A series of works made in collaboration with Melissa Hands.
The Place Without Shadows
(2019)
A work based on Tuesday Smilie’s reading of Ursula K. Le Guin’s “Left Hand of Darkness.”
Citizen Displaced
(2018)
A collaboration with music and dance, this work brings awareness to the refugee crisis.
Tertiary Spaces
(2018)
A collaboration between 4 unique dance artists, this work explores the physical and metaphysical spaces between us.
the Chromanauts
(2016, 2018)
Meet the Chromanauts: explorers of time and quantum-chroma space. They have set off on their most daring mission yet: exploration of the third dimension. Dance and visual art meet in this explosive live-action scifi adventure. Visual art by John Mosher
I Know
(2015)
On August 4, 2013, my long-time friend and musician Matt Ryd lost his long battle with anxiety, depression, and eating disorders. Although he left this world, the most beautiful thing about art is that his voice is still with us after he has left; so many words and lyrics were left behind. After he passed, Ben Winter and I got together to finish this project. Matt was with us the whole time.
In Passing
(2014)
Collaboration with guitarrist Adrian Medriano
A Place at the Table
(2014)
A piece about handicapped accessibility.
ICICLES
(2013)
An evening length work presented at the Chicago Fringe Festival. The seasons serve as a temporal lense to examine how weather mirrors the changing temperatures of the fragile human heart.
Strophe, Epode and Epode II
(2013, 2014)
A work in three parts.
To Be Determined
(2013)
A video / live performance art project examining how we inhabit the present tense as ephemeral performers. "To Be Determined" was premiered in Tulsa, Oklahoma at Living Arts as a part of Continuous Present Tense.
Luke 5:10
(2007)
""Do not be afraid: from now on you will be fishers of men."
Tease
(2007)
"Tease" was presented on April 14, 2007 as choreographic research with an academic paper at the University of Iowa Craft Critique Culture Conference: Sex in Public, Sex in private. The paper, written by Christine Hands, was titled: “Masculine Men and the Search for other Options: Masculinity Performance on the Western Stage.”
Archive of Other Works by Christine Hands
(2008-2015)