Hi, David Rue here! For those of you I haven’t met, I am a dance artist, and cultural producer here with you to share some exciting news!
For twenty years, zoe | juniper has created work that expands what performance can be. Their practice moves between dance, installation, film, visual art, architecture, sound, and live encounters to create experiences that exist in the body while lingering in memory. Their work asks us to reconsider how we see, how we experience time, and how performance continues to exist after the moment has passed.

So how do we celebrate such a milestone? I’m glad you asked. As a longtime collaborator I will be working with zoe | juniper to build a living digital retrospective celebrating twenty years of artistic practice, performance, experimentation, and collaboration

This project asks what happens after performance ends, what remains after the lights go down, and what traces stay in the body. What images, gestures, sounds, relationships, and memories continue moving long after a work leaves the proverbial “stage”.
Over the coming months, we will revisit performances, photographs, rehearsal materials, film, installation, ephemera, reflections, and conversations from the company’s history and bring them into digital space.

It’s been such a fun time working with Zoe and the company across many years and across different moments, and what I love about their work is how it makes you think about what movement, choreography, and performance can do beyond traditional spaces.

One of the first works we will revisit is Ordinary Grief / The People to Come.

This project feels like the right place to begin because it already lived between performance and the cinematic space and returning to it now feels less like looking backward and more like opening a conversation with a work that still has information to share. Be sure to check out the latest IG post to see content of little ol me sharing space with a group of incredible Seattle based arts that were also part of this work.

Now let's get to the point! Throughout this retrospective, you can expect:

Archival activations and performance fragments
Behind the scenes materials and ephemera
Reflections from collaborators and performers
New writing and contextualized essays
Experiments that extend live work into digital space
Stories about process, memory, and artistic exchange
Monthly website features and expanded archive moments

Super excited for us to revisit twenty years of making and imagining what these works become next. The coolest part of it all? You all get to be active participants of the process.

Stay tuned, and talk soon! Much love,
David Rue

20 YEARS: AN ARCHIVE IN MOTION