CollSet (Collective Settlement) is a gathering of friends making movement-based art together. Domestic rituals inspire choreographies and installations intended to connect viewers to their own visceral wilderness. Recent projects explore the felt experience of language and its connection to movement and gesture. We are Felicia Ballos, Jean Brennan, Elizabeth Castagna. Each member shifts between videographer, dancer, set designer, director.
We Are Walls Talking, Live Performance
Collaboration with poet Edwin Torres and musician/composer Ben Stapp
"Writing On It All" festival, Watch video on Vimeo
Governor's Island, NYC 6/11/16
Warmly Yours, Live Performance,
WORD Exhibit
HVCCA, Peekskill, NY 2/27/16
Live Arts Fest 2016
HVCCA, Peekskill, NY 1/31/16
Ace Air: Aunts, Periscope Performance
Ace Hotel Artist Residency
Ace Hotel, NYC, 9/27/15
The Usual Pavilion, Live Performance
The usual pavilion is a place where we seek shelter, debate, watch the stars, give birth, find ourselves, make love. Performed at St. Marks, the choreography involved nine movers, six 300’ spools of industrial rope, and scrap fabric to form the god’s eye pavilion. It is an experiment in cooperative dancemaking that presses on labor, specifically women’s work, and questions of collective and individual action. Choreography by Felicia Ballos, Jean Brennan and Charnan Lewis.
Movement Research Fall Festival
St. Marks Church, NYC, 12/4/14
Another Pavilion, Live Performance
Live Arts Fest 2015
HVCCA (Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Arts)
Peekskill, NY, 1/10/15
Drawing a Line with My Body Straight to You
3 channel video installation
Aunts for Camera Residency, Link to Announcement
The New Museum, New York
Stedelijk Museum/Trouw, Amsterdam
9/8/14 - 2/15/15
Dance Hikes
performance, video
University Settlement Camp, Beacon, NY
Beacon Open Studios
5/2/14 - 5/4/14