Director: Shawn Hove
Choreographer: Lisa Race

About sitting, with plastic

Collaborators Lisa Race and Shawn Hove interrogate Race’s reckoning with an aging dancing body. Through Hove’s questioning and set, and Race’s alternately tense gripping, then airily floating movement, the film exposes a disconnect between an external view of one self increasingly not matching the internal view we sometimes carry of ourselves as we age.

About Lisa Race and Shawn Hove

Lisa Race performed, choreographed and taught in NYC for many years before moving to New London, CT in 2004. Upon arrival, she guest taught at Connecticut College and Wesleyan, continued to freelance, and completed an MFA in Dance at Hollins/ADF in 2007, joining the faculty at Conn. that fall. While in New York, Race danced with Ronald K. Brown, Sara Pearson/Patrik Widrig & Co and others before joining David Dorfman Dance from 1989–2000, having received a “Bessie” Award in 1995 for her dancing with the company. She took an extended pause from DDD while her and Dorfman’s son, Samson, was young before rejoining the company in 2013. Under the guise of RaceDance, her choreography was seen at the former Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project, Dancenow and Movement Research at the Judson Church while in NYC. She has been fortunate to teach at Bates Dance Festival, the American Dance Festival and ImPulsTanz in Vienna multiple times, and has given classes and workshops at many locations around the globe. sitting with plastic is Race’s third dance film collaboration with Shawn Hove. She is delighted to have recently collaborated with both Shawn and Rachel Boggia, who collectively contributed mediated video elements to a new solo performed as part of an evening of work at Connecticut College. 

Shawn Hove, artistic director of shove gently dance/theater, received a MFA in Choreography and Dance Technology from The Ohio State University and a BFA in Dance from Cornish College of the Arts. A multidisciplinary dance artist investigating and working in dance as a choreographer, dancer, collaborator, educator, film maker, lighting designer, and media artist, he has worked in one (or several) of these roles with David Dorfman Dance, Race Dance, Wade Madsen and Dancers, Wolf Works, Betsy Miller ‘05 , elephant JANE dance, Rachel Boggia, and more. shawn has been a member of the Connecticut College community since 2011.

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