paige starling sorvillo (she/her/cis/queer) is an improvising choreographer equally valuing instantaneous surreptitious public choreographies and extensively researched/rehearsed works for stage, site and video. Her choreographic practices employ association games and translation practices to generate: minimalist duos with musicians; “image-games” with artist groups; choreographies for objects and humans; and multi-layered intermedia work. She less often defines a set of fixed movements, but rather offers a set of sensory, intellectual, visual or emotional instigations that generate energetic state(s), movement/body qualities, text, images and sound. Her physical performance dialect is charged with emotional and energetic nuance influenced by deep study of Japanese Butoh dance, Noguchi training, Ruth Zaporah’s Action Theater, western contemporary dance forms, and a deep nerdy love for the study of anatomy and kinesiology. She has presented work throughout the bay area, in various US cities as well as internationally since 2001. CV available upon request.