(re)-identified by The Pink Door Project

A collaborative contemporary dance work created with ten dancers through improvisation, composition, and task-based processes.

(re)–identified is a collaborative contemporary dance work developed through The Pink Door Project, where ten participants and director and research student Madison, engaged in a series of rehearsals exploring improvisation, composition, and task-based processes. Across multiple sessions, dancers worked with prompts, scores, and layered activities that were continually reworked and transformed, allowing the material to evolve organically. These sessions layered and reworked movement ideas drawn from scores, somatic improvisation, and collaborative composition tasks, allowing dancers to move beyond habitual studio patterns and engage in embodied discovery. The title reflects this iterative process; movement ideas were repeatedly “re-identified” as participants discovered new possibilities, negotiated agency, and co-created the final piece. By integrating contemporary dance methods into a context often shaped by codified studio practices, the project aimed to foster collaboration and democratize authorship. Each rehearsal invited dancers to explore prompts, respond to stimuli, and make decisions that foregrounded their lived experience. This work foregrounds exploration over replication, inviting dancers to move beyond habitual studio patterns and embrace embodied decision-making within a shared creative framework.