About Moving Through Loneliness

In “Moving Through Loneliness,” an intergenerational group of performers use movement and gesture to examine the isolation and loss we face as we get older. This film draws its material from an installation that was created for the exhibition “We’re Still Here,” at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. “Moving Through Loneliness” is a collaboration between choreographer Cid Pearlman and filmmaker Mara Milam, with an original sound score composed by Jonathan Segel of Camper Van Beethoven.

About Cid Pearlman

For two decades, Cid Pearlman’s choreography has worked to subtly disrupt traditional notions of desire, gender and friendship. Inspired by the resilience, fragility and resourcefulness of the human body, Pearlman makes dances about how we negotiate being together in a complex world. Her work has been presented at numerous venues including ODC Theater, Joyce SoHo, Kanuti Gildi SAAL (Estonia), Stockholm City Hall, the Getty Center, Theatre Artaud and the Museum of Contemporary Art/San Diego. Among other honors she has received a Fulbright Award from the US Department of State, and she has been twice awarded a Djerassi Resident Artist Fellowship.