Choreographer and teacher Karen Stokes to retire from University of Houston after 25 years. This weekend she premieres a new work about change.
Which in part explains the sight of five dancers on their knees, their arms moving with twitchy but precise energy as they twist around and tap upon call bells, the sort one used to find in hotel lobbies.
She pulled atlases from the library at UH and pored over old maps with ships and serpents, full of borders and designations made through acts of aggression. She considered the unreliable narrators who designed them, and also the changes in geologic features — with glaciers and shorelines — since the maps were initially drawn.
Stokes said last year of her mother: “Innately, intuitively at her core, she was a mover. She loved to move and perform. Even after she quote-unquote retired, she loved to perform. If she was in a room with music, she’d improvise. You had to let her have the floor.” She wants to take piano lessons for the first time since she was a teen. She’d like to improve her French.She’s not keen on the term retirement or the ways our culture frames it as a last stage before the boneyard. Stokes says her recently retired brother referred to it as “a life reset.”
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