SJØRADIO
MULTIMEDIA PERFORMANCE, FILM, & SOUND INSTALLATION FOR A GALLERY
2023, USF VERFTET, BERGEN, NORWAY
The project was developed as part of the Artist-in-Residence Programs at Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder (LKV), DansiT, USF Verftet, and Bergen Dansesenter.
The project is a multimedia documentation of our research in the form of handmade instruments, film viewers, screendance, and live movement and sound performances throughout the USF Verftet gallery and abutting fjord. With these instruments and scores for listening, the viewer is invited to adjust their frequency to the sea. The works create a sense of tuning in rather than altering the surroundings, and led us to create a pirate radio station for the sea in order to expand our attention to the changing climate.
JUNKSPACE
SITE-ADAPTIVE LIVE PERFORMANCE
2019-Present
"JUNKSPACE" is an evening-length site-adaptive performance that features dancers Ellie Goudie-Averill, Taryn Griggs, Jungwoong Kim, Jenna Riegel and live music by Cole Highnam and Seth Wenger.
"Lawrence’s work communes directly with the space; its strength arises from its acknowledgement of both the physical and energetic states present."
THINKING DANCE
HOLDING PLACE
LIVE PERFORMANCE FOR MUSEUMS
2012-2015
"Holding Place" is a 40-minute site-specific performance piece, commissioned by the Barnes Foundation and made specifically for the Barnes' Annenberg Court. It features four dancers and live musicians Bing & Ruth (a 7-piece ensemble based in Brooklyn, NY). The piece can be adapted for other museum and gallery spaces.
FIELD MADE WHITE
LIVE SITE-SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE
2016
Set in the historic Johnson County Poor Farm and Asylum located in Iowa City, the multimedia piece involves five dancers, one live musician, 16mm film projection, and video installation. Using the multiple buildings and vast landscape of the abandoned farm, the piece guides a traveling audience into re-experiencing space and finding ways to see in a more mindful-bodyful way.
AWAKENED RUINS
LIVE SITE-SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE
2011-2012
"Tori Lawrence + Co. has staged a haunting Fringe event, Awakened Ruins, to animate this majestic 1847 National Historic Landmark [...] five women dancers caked in white clay and wearing corseted muslin bodices progress through the three adjoining rotundas [...] Tori Lawrence's choreography, replete with fine articulations and carefully placed tableaux, often resembles a slow-moving sculpture as much as a dance. One breakout moment recalls The Rite of Spring, both in pianist Patrick Fink's rhythms and in the hunkered-down group stomps. Memory, decay, and slow-moving time are rich elements of Awakened Ruins."
LISA KRAUS, THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
