A Tincture of Time: Ultrasound Dance

Photo credit Hannah Rafkin

Photo credit Hannah Rafkin

A Tincture of Time: a psychedelic art film set in a hospital about a mother’s journey to save her ailing son

Last summer I got a small grant to begin sketching out some ideas on this project with the hopes that the sketches could help the project grow into something bigger. The grant is mostly being used to pay collaborators, which is a new and rad experience for me. These images are from the first (and only as we wait out Coronavirus) night of experimentation with collaborators.

I had an idea to try and make a diagnostic ultrasound dance using light, fabric and dancers. I want to capture that feeling of watching something tremendously important that you are powerless to understand.

Light and haze: Ian P. Hundt
Dancers: Alexa Clavette, Dana Dotson, Jen Hoffer
Documentation: Hannah Rafkin and Jen Hoffer

Funded in part by a grant from the Maine Arts Commission, an independent state agency supported by the National Endowment for the Arts