National Forest
1998

Choreographed by Lynn Marie Ruse
Performers Amelia Derezinski and Erin Reck
Music: Henry Threadgill. Video: BBQ Productions

National Forest is a thrilling journey of two women through the forest of their psyches, revealing images of innocence, experience, fear, and freedom. Projected behind the dancers is a video of the duet shot at the East River Park in New York City. National Forest was choreographed by Lynn Marie Ruse of FREEFALL(ltd), a New York based dance/theater company. The duet was created on Amelia and Erin and given to Torque Dance as part of their repertory. The following images are video stills.