Dylan Richmond
Still/Here
After the Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Company’s national tour of Still/Here, 2024 - 2026.
With text from “Survival Workshops: Talking and Moving about Life and Death.” 1992 - 1994
Scott
Drawing out my life
Philip
A drop of water across metal scaffolding.
Hannah
A hitch of breath,
both the breathing and what has stopped it.
Beverly
I’m a fighter
Robert
I’m resigned
Rosa
Head back, a gust of wind, propelling space––
letting all things take over.
Bonnie
Engulfing the whole universe, grab it up
Jada
The room, dissected;
a memory.
When we were young and for the first time
felt compelled to lean forward.
Chris
I see these things and I must tell everyoneDylan Richmond 2
Shane
Splashing color around the stage, spilling
over the edges to make new sides.
Cindy
This is a bird, flying and free
Wyeth
Forming language in the lights
I understand, I understand.
Barrington
A center that touches the most distant skin.
Arnie
Introducing the Survivors!
Babou
To share a secret with gravity.
Bill
Wanting to leave something open ended
Mak
Courageous teeth swallowing the eye.
Juan
Life goes on forever
Assotto
The truth I found is that people die
everyday as mothers are birthing babiesDylan Richmond 3
Danielle
Pushing against something, the way
dawn presses into clouds, carves
a whole new hand of light.
Ruth
I have a lot of love to give
Huiwang
Joy. Completely.
Peggy
Reaching out for help to all my friends
Jacoby
The ground part of the body,
spirit coursing through the earth like lighting.
The spirit the audience, the audience unsure of how to watch
without crying out.
Dylan Richmond is a choreographer, dancer, and poet from the Connecticut shoreline and the company manager for New York Live Arts and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company. He has presented work and/or performed at TOTAH, WestFest, NYU, The Tank, Bowdoin College, the Bates Dance Festival, Yale, UCLA, and Connecticut College. As a poet, Dylan is a 2024 Pushcart Prize nominee and is notably published in From Root to Seed, Lily Poetry Review, No, Dear, On Paper, and The Foundationalist.