Miranda Busansky

Contact Improvisation | Dance

(she/they)

Miranda Busansky is a queer artist and dancer located in Western Massachusetts whose modes of expression lay at the intersection of ceramics, fiber arts, performance, and dance. Miranda attended The Evergreen State College where they were steeped in anthropological inquiries on materialism, modes of relation, and place based embodiment. They studied the history and weaving traditions of various Co-Salish tribes whose land they were residing on, and later delved into the folklore of their own Slavic ancestry, becoming interested in collective ritual practices of gathering, making, eating, and moving as essential components of the human experience. This led them to the discovery of Contact Improvisation as a practice that weaves together body and place into an ephemeral web of movement and relation. 

Their visual and movement work explores themes of ancestral mythology and monstrousness, the layering, masking, and opacity of the self, and how we can allow the disturbing, devastating, and heart-swelling conditions of our internal and external worlds to better move through our bodies. Over the past eight months they have studied dance intensively through participation in various volunteer residences, classes, as well as a series of workshops at the Tic Tac art center in Brussels. They have a CI, Somatics, and Butoh practice that continues to unfold into ways of studying environmental, social, and political concerns through modes of embodiment in dance.

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