Double Feature - by Gwen Welliver (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Double Feature is a dance for the page juxtaposing images from two key periods of choreographer Gwen Welliver's artistic practice: 2013-2023 and 1991-2012. The doubled/overlapping structure of the volume creates a choreographic space in which lines, shapes, gestures, and expressions chime across time and distance. Readers, turning and reorienting, paging and paging back, become dancers of a mutable choreography about research and influence, the layered structure of memory and grief, and the myriad ways abstraction's architectures can hold the personal, the particular, the idiosyncrasies of the body itself.

About the Author

Gwen Welliver is a choreographer and movement director based in New York City. She is the recipient of a 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and the New York Dance and Performance "Bessie" Award for Sustained Achievement in Dancing with Doug Varone and Dancers. She previously served as Rehearsal Director of the Trisha Brown Dance Company, where she led the revival of early work, opera restagings, and the supervision of the company's international touring repertory. Her teaching has taken her to academic programs, conservatories, cultural centers, and festivals across four continents. Welliver's current research explores speculative and open-ended approaches to dance, including performing simultaneity, emotional tenor through non-figurative drawing, and collaborative practices. She is a professor in the School of Dance at Florida State University.