MOTHERLESSSHIP
MOTHERLESSSHIP is a series of performance sketches and physical poems that seek to merge the frayed edges of personal and global realms into one embracing impression
The study and exploration for this performance piece began in 2018 after my mother transitioned from this plane (in my presence) after an 18-month medical-nightmare-voyage with pancreatic cancer. During that time I was her primary caregiver and was launched into that kind of unrelenting love that is mothering. The role of MOTHER has haunted me most of my life, like many women (and others). And now the role of MOTHERLESS awakens and prevails. This piece is part of making sense of this new space I inhabit as MOTHERLESS on a MOTHERLESSSHIP such as The United States of America. What is the realm of the MOTHERLESS? This stirs many beings to awaken and come to the surface. This work is a place for bringing these beings into light.
May 2026 at The Foundry in West Stockbridge
This is the realm of motherless: a realm that stirs many unseen beings to awaken and come to the surface. This work is a place for bringing these beings into light.
-Stefanie Weber is an action-based dance artist creating performance work she refers to as physical poetry. She creates within a wide spectrum from magical realism to trance medium folklore to traditional American vernacular. She is highly-skilled at translating abstract source information and universal experiences into embodied artistic expression. Her artwork often creates unfinished worlds that only take shape in collaboration with the audience.
December 2023
May 2023
January 2023
Exploratory sketch for character development. As part of This Space, We Dance project in Housatonic, MA. View from 30m:02s
APRIL 2019
Work-in-Progress Series at School for Contemporary Dance and Thought. Northampton, MA
photos by Peter Raper
December 2018
The Salon @MAX/Moving Arts Exchange with artist Diane Firtell and musician/composer Sam Rosen
