INTERSECTION
Choreography: Liz Gerring
Generative Soundscore and Co-Direction: Michael J. Schumacher
Directed by and Director of Photography: Orfeas Skutelis
Photography: Miguel Anaya
Dancers in Video: Mariah Arters, McCall Atkinson, Truth Colón, Lorenzo Pagano, Deniz Sancak, Hannah Straney
Dancers in Gallery: Mariah Arters, McCall Atkinson
Rehearsal Director: Brandon Collwes
Production Coordinator: Claire Westby
Edited by Zlatko Zlatković
Color Grading by Darko Maletin
Production: Matthew Wachsman, Brian Murphy (DIT), Moon Choi, Nathanial Gary, Yu-Ling Huang
Special Thanks: Kirk Radke, Sarah May, Willoughby Thom, Jonathan Sims, Moscelyne ParkeHarrison, Mark Morris Dance Center, Soundhouse AV Rentals
For this dance film installation by Liz Gerring, Orfeas Skutelis, Michael J. Schumacher, and Miguel Anaya, movement was developed specifically for the camera, allowing the body to be shaped by framing, duration, and perspective rather than theatrical presentation. Filmed movement is projected onto the gallery wall, preserving the scale of the human body while situating it within a cinematic environment. An original sound score operates as an integral layer of the work, shaping rhythm, atmosphere, and the viewer’s sense of time and space. The photographic exhibit presents still images that reveal the physical language of the choreography, offering another way to encounter movement through stillness and form.
By presenting dance as an installation rather than a performance, the project invites audiences to experience movement as a visual and sensory field encountered through observation and proximity. In the gallery, viewers choose where to stand and how long to watch, shaping their own experience of the work.
Liz Gerring Radke was born in San Francisco in 1965 and grew up in Los Angeles, where she began studying dance at age 13. She studied at the Cornish Institute in Seattle and received a BFA from the Juilliard School in 1987. Gerring formed the Liz Gerring Dance Company in 1998 and has presented her work in New York City and internationally since then. Between 2013 and 2018 she created three works with composer Michael J. Schumacher commissioned by Peak Performances at the Kasser Theater in Montclair, New Jersey. She received the Jacob’s Pillow Prize and a Joyce Theater Residency in 2015, a City Center Choreographic Fellowship in 2017–18, and the Cage Cunningham Fellowship from the Baryshnikov Arts Center in 2019. Gerring has taught at Groove With Me since 2018. She lives in New York City and upstate New York with her husband, Kirk Radke, and their dog and cat, and has three adult children.
Michael J. Schumacher is a Brooklyn based composer who has pioneered spatialized sound and algorithmic composition since the 1980s. His multi channel generative “Room Pieces” have been presented in galleries, museums, concert halls, and public environments internationally. His work has been presented at GRM in Paris, Roulette, Issue Project Room, Artists Space, Ostrava Music Days, Transmediale, MCA Lyon, the Hermitage Museum, Klangraum Krems, and the Dream House. His music has been released by Superpang, XI Records, Sub Rosa, Entr’acte, Quecksilber, and Sedimental. Schumacher is music director of the Liz Gerring Dance Company and an adjunct professor at NYU’s Steinhardt and Tandon schools and at Ramapo College.
Orfeas Skutelis is a cinematographer, media artist, and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. Born in Novi Sad in the former Yugoslavia, he studied cinematography at the Academy of Arts and later earned an MA in Media Studies from The New School. His cinematography credits include films Logbook Serbistan, Wanderlust, When Pigs Come, and Operation Bulkes, among many. He was a member of the kuda.org, a new media arts collective in Novi Sad from 2002-2011 and was a founding member of Youth Social Center CK13. Since 2019 he serves as Technical Director of the Bosnian Herzegovinian Film Festival in New York and is a part-time lecturer at The New School.
Miguel Anaya is a New York based photographer originally from Brownsville, Texas, and a first generation Mexican American. His work has been featured in The New York Times and the International Center of Photography. He is a recipient of the Jocelyn Benzakin Scholarship and the Howard Chapnick Grant and is an alumnus of the 2010 Eddie Adams Workshop #23. In addition to his photography career, Anaya has danced professionally with companies including Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, White Oak Dance Project, Liz Gerring Dance Company, and Stephanie Batten Bland. He also performed in Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More and served as assistant choreographer for the Tony Award winning production of Spring Awakening.