Tether

Premiere: March 15, 2013

DeSales University, Center Valley, PA

Additional performances: Baltimore Dance Invitational, Baltimore (2015); American College Dance Festival, Ohio University (2014); InHale Performance Series, Philadelphia (2013)

Costumes: Samantha Southard

Lighting: Liz Elliott

Performers: Jillian Ikeler | Amanda Urbanski

Synopsis: Tether dives into the secret world of a woman at the end of her rope. This solo is an abstraction of the life of Jackie Kennedy in the White House. The female dancer whips, shoves, reaches, and crumbles as she struggles with what it means to be simultaneously strong and vulnerable.

Photos by Chuck Gloman