Director: Audrey MacLean

Director of Photography: Jennifer Magnuson / Baby Viking Photography

Performer: Morgan Griffin

About foreshore (2024)

foreshore: 1.) a strip of land margining a body of water. 2.) the part of a seashore between high-water and low-water marks.

This film was shot in June of 2024 at Popham Beach in Mid-coast Maine (USA), between low and high tide. In the winter of 2023, Popham Beach experienced terrible climate change related damage causing extreme shoreline change, damage to homes and buildings, and dune erosion. While the film is intrinsically linked to the changes that this land has seen, it is also exploring the human state of being between high and low points in our lives. That homeostasis place which exists as a place of balance between the best and worst moments we experience individually as humans.

About Audrey MacLean

Audrey MacLean is a New England-based dance/performance artist. Since graduating from Connecticut College, Audrey has had the pleasure of performing throughout the Northeast in work by a number of artists including: Jimena Bermejo, Peter DiMuro, Morgan Griffin/griffindance, Heidi Henderson, Kimberleigh Holman, Grant Jacoby, Annie Kloppenberg, Betsy Miller, Ruckus Dance, shovegentlydance, and others. Audrey's choreographic work has been presented through Green Street Studio's New Works program, The Dance Complex's aMaSSiT program, as part of DanceNOW Boston at ART's Oberon (2016) and DanceNOW Boston at The Dance Complex (2024), in DanceNOW NYC’s Fall On Demand Program in 2021, and at a number of theaters and festivals throughout New England. Audrey was named one of the Boston Center for the Art’s Dancemakers Laboratory Resident Artists for the 2022-2023 Season. Audrey has also taught technique, composition, and improvisation classes at both the professional and pre-professional level at: Berklee College of Music, The Dance Complex, Développé (Sudbury, MA), The Foundry (Cambridge, MA), Moving Target Portland, Moving Target Boston, Rising Tide Charter School, and other youth studios around New England. She was a Teaching Artist for the Maine Arts Alliance “Building Community Through Arts” program in 2024. Audrey is currently teaching weekly Professional-Level Modern/Contemporary Classes for The Click at The Dance Complex in Cambridge, MA.

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