https://iwanttobe.space Anna Kroll & Chloë Engel Mon, 31 Jul 2023 21:57:19 +0000 https://iwanttobe.space en https://iwanttobe.space/Home Tue, 21 Jun 2022 16:10:46 +0000 Anna Kroll & Chloë Engel https://iwanttobe.space/Home https://iwanttobe.space/About Fri, 20 May 2022 21:57:36 +0000 Anna Kroll & Chloë Engel https://iwanttobe.space/About Anna Kroll and Chloë Engel are improvisers, dancers, and listeners. We swear we make dances, but they’re also phone calls, choose-your-own-adventure vignettes, living installations, games, and/or oracles for predicting our ecological destiny. <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/020b45dc52b6b5b610f8473768faf1429a1e8d623820889b6e635650709f9cce/IMG_5428.JPG" data-mid="160182716" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/020b45dc52b6b5b610f8473768faf1429a1e8d623820889b6e635650709f9cce/IMG_5428.JPG" /> Image Description:&nbsp; Anna and Chloë stand together and look directly at the camera. Anna, a femme with brown feathered shoulder-length hair and green eyes, wears a black button up. Chloë, a freckled, white person with shoulder length red-hair and blue eyes wears an orange long sleeve shirt. Behind them is a white table with impercievable materials, and cream colored piece of muslin draped against the wall. In the foreground to pieces of the cream fabric create an asymetrical frame. Photo by Tomi Faison Our work challenges the viewer to participate in absurd logic. In this theatrical world, props, set materials, and performing bodies take on an excess of meaning. The ground is sand, and then it is salt, and then the ashes of a loved one, and then memory. Everything is alive— breathing and morphing and coping with it’s own impermanence. Inside this roller coaster of pretend, something thrilling, unsettling, and deeply human is revealed. Are you seeing what I see? Are we looking at the same thing? Like clouds shape shifting in the sky, or a Rube Goldberg machine, events are meandering yet connected. Like a dream, there’s a “reason” but it’s not what you were expecting. Artificial and natural materials coexist in an ecosystem that holds poetic implications. We are dancers, so we think a lot about our bodies, the viewers’ body and the space as a body. We construct multi-sensory practices for remaining embodied and autonomous in an unraveling shared experience. Meticulously crafted processes informed by deep listening, consent and our jobs as teachers usher the audience into murky waters (even if we’re not there). We ask the audience to sit with us in mystery. The shared unknown in our work is a reflection of the shared unknown we all live in together. We create work for an incomprehensible yet conceivable future. Our islands of imagination float within the real world. ︎thisspaceisabody Our work has been presented as part of: re:semblance at New Media Artspace (NYC/ online)Spark IV: A New World? (Baltimore / online)The Mind on Fire Variety Show (Baltimore/online). Tendon Magazine We have facilitated workshops independently and through Deep Play Institute and School of Making Thinking.&nbsp; Anna Kroll&nbsp; <img width="691" height="691" width_o="691" height_o="691" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2c706f780d88b1caeef7df18e6fcde9ba4ce9d4e475889071632c302074de9c2/Photo-on-2-11-23-at-12.20-PM.jpg" data-mid="177224161" border="0" data-scale="77" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/691/i/2c706f780d88b1caeef7df18e6fcde9ba4ce9d4e475889071632c302074de9c2/Photo-on-2-11-23-at-12.20-PM.jpg" /> Anna Kroll is a dancer, educator and interdisciplinary artist.&nbsp;Anna Kroll’s performance work has been shown at No Theme Festival (Poughkeepsie, NY) in Philadelphia Theaters, Rivers and Subway Underpasses at FringeArts’ Scratch Night, Open Call Guerilla Outdoor Performance Festival, Invisible River’s Schuylkill River Arts Day, Cathy Weis' Sundays on Broadway (NYC), and Danspace's Draftwork series (NYC). MFA from University of Maryland Baltimore County in Intermedia &amp; Digital Art.&nbsp; annakroll.com ︎︎︎ Chloë Engel&nbsp; <img width="292" height="295" width_o="292" height_o="295" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3b15393835e90d23e848fe8955ba3fcd5d4814494f32e909104ce2902b21cee5/Screen-Shot-2023-04-30-at-8.05.21-PM.png" data-mid="177224022" border="0" data-scale="81" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/292/i/3b15393835e90d23e848fe8955ba3fcd5d4814494f32e909104ce2902b21cee5/Screen-Shot-2023-04-30-at-8.05.21-PM.png" /> Chloë works with children, and makes performance about being a child. Chloë’s performance work has been shown at Lifeworld (Brooklyn, NY), AUNTS (Brooklyn, NY), Open Performance at Movement Research, No Theme Festival (Poughkeepsie, NY), Little Berlin (Philadelphia, PA), Middlebury College, and Bennington College. chloeengel.org ︎︎︎ https://iwanttobe.space/Contact Sat, 26 Nov 2022 01:26:52 +0000 Anna Kroll & Chloë Engel https://iwanttobe.space/Contact Some things we are available for:&nbsp; Facilitating WorkshopsPerformancesArtist TalksSoul connectionsCat stories Game &amp; Activity Design&nbsp; REACH ︎︎︎OUT&nbsp; <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ad7b82497c49bb8045df31c91c6b5b9ed71a35156075ed0ff627d2d2c7ceb169/IMG_4476.JPG" data-mid="171278703" border="0" data-scale="66" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ad7b82497c49bb8045df31c91c6b5b9ed71a35156075ed0ff627d2d2c7ceb169/IMG_4476.JPG" />@thisspaceisabody https://iwanttobe.space/Be-Contacted Fri, 03 Mar 2023 04:38:09 +0000 Anna Kroll & Chloë Engel https://iwanttobe.space/Be-Contacted <img width="2880" height="1800" width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f4ecc2bf9828a8627a901a8786d50a901ba1faafb548b90f6c358ea0d0ad52c4/Screen-Shot-2022-01-30-at-7.39.39-PM-1-2-copy.jpg" data-mid="170379325" border="0" data-scale="74" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f4ecc2bf9828a8627a901a8786d50a901ba1faafb548b90f6c358ea0d0ad52c4/Screen-Shot-2022-01-30-at-7.39.39-PM-1-2-copy.jpg" /> We will definitely tell you about our upcoming projects. We might tell you more. We’re still figuring it out. Join our e-mail list ︎ https://iwanttobe.space/Mobile-nav Fri, 20 May 2022 21:57:36 +0000 Anna Kroll & Chloë Engel https://iwanttobe.space/Mobile-nav Balloon Wound (wip) The Space is a Body and You Are In It I Want to Be The Room Contact Us Be Contacted ©2023 https://iwanttobe.space/Balloon-Wound Tue, 25 Jul 2023 21:13:55 +0000 Anna Kroll & Chloë Engel https://iwanttobe.space/Balloon-Wound Balloon Wound (Working Title) (work in progress) <img width="1000" height="750" width_o="1000" height_o="750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3a246f17f8db314eca693938a9343a946628cde3747dd3aef62db04e2841a750/poncho.png" data-mid="186085295" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3a246f17f8db314eca693938a9343a946628cde3747dd3aef62db04e2841a750/poncho.png" /> <img width="1440" height="1080" width_o="1440" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/898607e06f97a97226c92cb560f9ae6f1f7c4bd261c4e00c54cd770aef86001d/handhold.png" data-mid="186085302" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/898607e06f97a97226c92cb560f9ae6f1f7c4bd261c4e00c54cd770aef86001d/handhold.png" /> <img width="1440" height="1080" width_o="1440" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/29bcadbd4ca1286143506edaad1df0ee9286663376fe4d6de474227c96f05c9d/hole.png" data-mid="186085346" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/29bcadbd4ca1286143506edaad1df0ee9286663376fe4d6de474227c96f05c9d/hole.png" /> <img width="1440" height="1080" width_o="1440" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/59760ab70af9a77ce6c45c6330f872bb07562b0dff0d1cab62da23597be45ad9/hand---rope.png" data-mid="186085298" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/59760ab70af9a77ce6c45c6330f872bb07562b0dff0d1cab62da23597be45ad9/hand---rope.png" /> <img width="1440" height="1080" width_o="1440" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/11dad1e8ce5b95745e1b50e988f28b36b5d7cfaf283d4b22a581dabb53a0f585/sand.png" data-mid="186085353" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/11dad1e8ce5b95745e1b50e988f28b36b5d7cfaf283d4b22a581dabb53a0f585/sand.png" /> https://iwanttobe.space/The-Space-is-a-Body-and-You-Are-In-It Fri, 20 May 2022 21:57:36 +0000 Anna Kroll & Chloë Engel https://iwanttobe.space/The-Space-is-a-Body-and-You-Are-In-It The Space is a Body and You Are In Ita collaborative world-building game.&nbsp; [Conversational Artifacts] [Specs] <img width="2048" height="1536" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/83c39a19fd29442e1f40977cb0acc922754f42c90e908e824ccce51acb8692f1/0A605EF2-F604-4627-9551-2969CBC70F1B.jpeg" data-mid="177587197" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/83c39a19fd29442e1f40977cb0acc922754f42c90e908e824ccce51acb8692f1/0A605EF2-F604-4627-9551-2969CBC70F1B.jpeg" /> Image Description:&nbsp; A&nbsp; person sitting at a wooden table holding a stack of cream colored cards. Etched onto the table is six overlapping shapes. Various objects (fluff, moss, salt, wire, rocks, beads, a tassel) are on top of this shape. A piece of black yarn is draped beside.&nbsp; Notice the space between you and the body across from you. Between is a map of intermingling shapes that represent an alternate reality; an imaginary space. Together, you inhabit this imaginary space. This space and the events that take place inside will be devised and described through your game play. A sigh can cause a hurricane. A patch of moss can devour the whole space. The sun can deflate into a balloon you rest your head on. A tear can become a flood and suddenly you are an island. <img width="2048" height="1536" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e11a08bceb1cd527f6b5964c20d952ab47954f235344371f31021742e243a66b/664DC792-3AAF-46C7-96CB-87D31C99A8A9.jpeg" data-mid="177587199" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e11a08bceb1cd527f6b5964c20d952ab47954f235344371f31021742e243a66b/664DC792-3AAF-46C7-96CB-87D31C99A8A9.jpeg" /> <img width="2014" height="1396" width_o="2014" height_o="1396" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8bbb4a4aa38c3ba950e075a0645bbc46506174d8f8d22398b3632a0e537c1a86/CC88CEB8-FA16-4A7D-9D5E-433316FC3351.jpeg" data-mid="177587734" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8bbb4a4aa38c3ba950e075a0645bbc46506174d8f8d22398b3632a0e537c1a86/CC88CEB8-FA16-4A7D-9D5E-433316FC3351.jpeg" /> <img width="2048" height="1536" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4d5fad68effa8ce455a7baf40093f7ebe4bc42b732f4c4d3a13730e63147d66f/B8D3F1B8-AD9B-4DE2-957F-415E89A0DEAB.JPG" data-mid="181521434" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4d5fad68effa8ce455a7baf40093f7ebe4bc42b732f4c4d3a13730e63147d66f/B8D3F1B8-AD9B-4DE2-957F-415E89A0DEAB.JPG" /> <img width="5472" height="3072" width_o="5472" height_o="3072" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d6c9d302184d8a53c0afa36079ab97faed82ebfe8e4b34d1fb66f0d98b7182da/6Q2A4810.JPG" data-mid="181521503" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d6c9d302184d8a53c0afa36079ab97faed82ebfe8e4b34d1fb66f0d98b7182da/6Q2A4810.JPG" /> Image 1: A canvas tent with an arch way cut out. Inside the tent Is a table with piles of cards on top, twochairs covered in white fabric, and a white piece of paper with words written on it. The inside of the tent appears to be glowing. Image 2: In the foreground is a large silver dish filled with sand. Resting in the sand is a small metal bowl filled with matches, and a pewter candle snuffer. In the center of the silver dish is a yellow candle with two wicks burning next to eachother. The wax is dripping into the sand. Behind the dish is the canvas tent. A white person with a pony tail is sitting at the table looking at the table, and another is crouched at the end of the table. Image 3: An overhead view of the table mid game-play. On the surface of the table, there are six overlapping shapes. A piece of black fuzzy yarn is stretched to encircle all of the shapes. Some of the shapes are labeled: ceiling, living, outside. Placed in other sections are various materials: a loose cotton ball, a pile of metal beads, ground coffee, a golden gem. To the left of the play area are two slate rectangles with writing, and four smaller piles of playing cards. They appear to have 1 sentence each. <img width="2048" height="1536" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5bb595025720bb5d9495941e66c3408c2f1908ceb1283f16e20dde98ea174e73/F2FD5DD0-3D0D-468D-84A1-56941ED5E511.JPG" data-mid="181521433" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5bb595025720bb5d9495941e66c3408c2f1908ceb1283f16e20dde98ea174e73/F2FD5DD0-3D0D-468D-84A1-56941ED5E511.JPG" /> Image:&nbsp; Underneath the Game table.&nbsp; A hidden shelf with tiles, moss, fluff, rocks, a smooth opalescent gemstone, a spring, a bone, wire, yarn and more. There are coffee ground scattered and three bowls inlaid in the shelf whose contents aren’t visible. &nbsp; <img width="1130" height="1140" width_o="1130" height_o="1140" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/430214858527e2568f4edb3b7d8a75870058a9b09769151e4379d0f9645e6a4c/BOARD_outline_transparent.png" data-mid="186098293" border="0" data-scale="64" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/430214858527e2568f4edb3b7d8a75870058a9b09769151e4379d0f9645e6a4c/BOARD_outline_transparent.png" /> https://iwanttobe.space/Artifacts Mon, 31 Jul 2023 21:57:19 +0000 Anna Kroll & Chloë Engel https://iwanttobe.space/Artifacts Artifacts We interviewed each other:&nbsp; <img width="1117" height="1551" width_o="1117" height_o="1551" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8954c26e01746081095857b670b6dd24d5d80e29b4d01e2f893ae61e2247262c/IMG_6861.JPG" data-mid="186611087" border="0" data-scale="42" 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src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5056b598f62f7806f458fe278f33c2a9c94eb11cd6a7074488c780f2564bcdb8/IMG_6849.JPG" /> <img width="1278" height="842" width_o="1278" height_o="842" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9320cf0c46fe365f5312550a7819d0af6332066de2fc0ee13b76b0a914a4eb82/IMG_6850.JPG" data-mid="186611078" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9320cf0c46fe365f5312550a7819d0af6332066de2fc0ee13b76b0a914a4eb82/IMG_6850.JPG" /> By articulating our practice and relationship outloud, we understand it better. https://iwanttobe.space/I-Want-to-Be Fri, 20 May 2022 21:57:37 +0000 Anna Kroll & Chloë Engel https://iwanttobe.space/I-Want-to-Be I Want to Be Video description: Text generated from a performance overlaid on a warm orange background where a pink and blue blur slowly move toward each other.&nbsp;Transcript here.&nbsp; You dial the number provided on the date that you’re supposed to.You close your eyes and listen.You enter a room.There are other people in the room. We are in the room with you.We tell you how the room is built,What the room containsWhat contains the roomWhat happens in the roomand how it will eventually all be destroyed.You listen. Every call is a new room. <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a81ca9d2d57fc4fe1841df9b85c89696ac889bd923202575e71e195303372033/IMG_2407.jpg" data-mid="170378987" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a81ca9d2d57fc4fe1841df9b85c89696ac889bd923202575e71e195303372033/IMG_2407.jpg" />Every performance we lit a candle. Image description:&nbsp; Chloë taking a picture of their reflection in a mirror with their phone. In from of them is a jar of water, a shell, a rock, small sculptures including a horse, and a lit candle.&nbsp; Behind them is their bedroom.&nbsp; <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/55fec38a846044aace0c92e7b11063872be31414958a16fec67c2d0abc420617/64645184169__C327E958-B116-4370-9EC5-344E52967B83.jpg" data-mid="170378939" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/55fec38a846044aace0c92e7b11063872be31414958a16fec67c2d0abc420617/64645184169__C327E958-B116-4370-9EC5-344E52967B83.jpg" /> Image description: Red persian rug with a white extension cable and headphones on top. In the middle, a lit candle in a metal container. I Want to Be is an improvised spoken dance performed via conference call. Audience members enter the conference call space and listen as an imaginary space is conjured through verbal description. Each space is created with the intention of being destroyed and we are in it. Like a Rube Goldberg machine, ourselves and elements in the room are animated through our description, one by one affecting each other and dismantling/degrading/destroying the space. Performances May 14, May 28, June 25, 2021Spark IV: A New World? / conference call June 25 - 27, 2021re:semblance/conference call Viewing of video April 2023Mind Over Matter / CADVC at UMBC / Baltimore, MD Fall 2023Tendon Magazine July 2021Video documentationMind on Fire Variety Show / Current Space &amp; Online / Baltimore, MD https://iwanttobe.space/The-Room Fri, 20 May 2022 21:57:37 +0000 Anna Kroll & Chloë Engel https://iwanttobe.space/The-Room The Room <img width="1204" height="966" width_o="1204" height_o="966" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e0facbde5433f7af84306fd729e51b5046a481927217625616513ebb278d2166/Artboard-1-100.jpg" data-mid="177224956" border="0" data-scale="76" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e0facbde5433f7af84306fd729e51b5046a481927217625616513ebb278d2166/Artboard-1-100.jpg" /> <img width="595" height="386" width_o="595" height_o="386" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7feebb7920bff92115773381755892071ab2fec73100a23c0f2e2ec224ec1ba7/i-want-to-be.png" data-mid="177225029" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/595/i/7feebb7920bff92115773381755892071ab2fec73100a23c0f2e2ec224ec1ba7/i-want-to-be.png" /> <img width="1600" height="1600" width_o="1600" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/559aa79f2d437de44e238c12049e4e510ea7a6de01d386a73835a14e27ae5323/the-class-is-a-game.jpg" data-mid="177225036" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/559aa79f2d437de44e238c12049e4e510ea7a6de01d386a73835a14e27ae5323/the-class-is-a-game.jpg" /> Image descriptions:&nbsp; The Room began in Spring of 2020. At this time Anna lived in Baltimore. Chloë lived in Upstate New York. We wanted to create a dance that we could do over the phone.&nbsp; And so, we began to practice a way of being we now call, Collaborative Imagining. Collaborative Imagining is a practice in which two or more people collectively devise an imaginary shared experience. Interacting with and within an imaginative landscape creates opportunities for understanding ourselves and others outside of conventional logic. When relating through collaborative imagining time is malleable, sensation is magnified, and cause &amp; effect hold poetic meaning. A sigh can cause a hurricane. A tear can become a flood and suddenly you are an island.&nbsp; The Room was performed live via telephone as I Want to Be and was iterated into a board game as The Space is a Body and You Are In It. WORKSHOP We have developed a workshop form of The Room which we have taught through Deep Play Institute and independently. Online, we practice with cameras turned off and an internal focus. Using structured improvisational play, we guide the group through a series of verbal scores. Once these scores become familiar, they are combined to generate an improvisational field of creation and existence. Through imaginary play, we can both experience and witness ourselves navigating the relationship between autonomy and consensus. Together, in virtual space, we will explore questions of shared reality: How do I imagine you? How do you imagine me? Can we ever really imagine the same thing? CAMPAIGN In January 2023 we did a four-session longform campaign with participants online.&nbsp; Here’s what one of them said:&nbsp; “Someone should join a campaign in order to remember how to imagine and experiment with a lot of support. Sometimes delving into fantasy and strange exercises can be kind of disorienting, even really fuck with your sense of self. But this is a space that is held with care, where you can experience heavy feelings like sadness and fear and elation in this kind of psychically safe way.““It is healthy, fun, silly, profound, and real.“ Our next campaign will be hosted through School of Making and Thinking in October 2023. &nbsp;Register here.