We Came to See Something...

Three dancer-movers of different minds, shapes, and experiences join together to explore Richmond's Rosie the Riveter National Historical Park—an outdoor site-specific improvisational adventure.

  • Megan Lowe
    Director
    Never Finished: Explorations at the Finnish
  • Megan Lowe
    Key Cast
  • Sonsherée Giles
    Key Cast
  • John Carnahan
    Key Cast
  • Megan Lowe
    Musician
  • Antonio Domenick
    Musician
  • Kelsie Bedard
    Musician
  • Dagmawe Norton
    Musician
  • Jake Scheps
    Musician
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Genres:
    Site-specific, Improvisation, Contact Improvisation
  • Runtime:
    6 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    April 22, 2016
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Megan Lowe

Megan Lowe is a performance artist, dancer, choreographer, singer, teacher, and administrator with degrees in Theater, Dance & Performance Studies (TDPS) and Psychology from UC Berkeley. Some artists Megan is performing/has performed with are Flyaway Productions, Lizz Roman & Dancers (LR&D), Dance Brigade, Epiphany Productions, Scott Wells & Dancers, This Sweet Nothing, Christine Cali & Co, Marit Brook-Kothlow, Beth Fein, Karl Frost, Keith Hennessy, and Tino Sehgal. She is continuing to create her own works, presented both live and on film, as well as making collaborative works with dance artist and partner in crime, Sonsherée Giles.

Megan has released three site-specific dance films: "AUXILIARY | A short spontaneous dance video experiment;" as well as "Never Finished: Explorations at the Finnish," created, composed, and performed during a residency at The Finnish Hall, and officially selected by the 12th Annual Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema and the 4th Annual Tiny Dance Film Festival; and now "We Came To See Something" an improvisational exploration.

She is a Teaching Artist for Joe Goode Performance Group and Bandaloop, teaches semesterly contact improvisation (CI) and partnering classes at UC Berkeley, and has also taught CI and partnering at Shawl-Anderson Dance Center and for KULARTS. She is currently the Office Manager for TDPS, the Company Manager for LR&D, and the Marketing Manager for Flyaway.

Megan's movement aesthetic is one ranging from subtle to explosive. She has an affinity for dynamic/kinetic movement, site-specificity/space-interaction, and contact improvisation/partnering—always searching for something or someone to interact with. Singing is also a passion of hers, she enjoys integrating movement and sound, and she composes music for her own works. She is currently a singer and collaborator in the alternative/folk band, TYPESTEREO. Megan is always on the lookout for more performance, teaching, and administrative opportunities to continue growing in the field of performance arts and as a human being.

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Director Statement

Megan Lowe is committed to investigating, highlighting, and relating to others and to spaces in unique ways through movement and multimedia explorations. With each location, she dives in and creates a work specific to that place and time by drawing inspiration from its architecture and history—by climbing, falling, and folding into and out of those floors, walls, windows, stairs, ledges, edges, and bodies, testing the laws of physics. She is constantly on the search for new discoveries through proficient movement generation, risk-taking, tackling unusual physical situations and coming up with compelling solutions. Through deep connections in conversation with the space and collaborators and with very little subtext, audiences are invited to witness and freely interpret the happening—each viewer is encouraged to have a unique experience unto themselves. The world is a cascading puzzle, and Megan is a piece that is constantly seeking new ways to fit with the elements around her.