Ice Floe – Video Jody Sperling July 6, 2014 Dance, Multimedia Credits Choreography & Performance: Jody Sperling Video Editing: Ben Harden & Amanda Kowalski Camera: Tripod, Frank Bahr & Pierre...
Habitat Jody Sperling June 27, 2014 Dance During SUBICE’s 43 day voyage, I got to dance on sea ice 12 times. As the science mission concluded and the Healy headed south we left my dancing...
Ice Station Practice 2: Waiting and a Squall Jody Sperling June 24, 2014 Dance When I left off in Ice Station Practice, I was awaiting a dancing-on-the-ice shoot with outreach team documentarians Ben Harden and Amanda Kowalski....
Ice Watching Jody Sperling June 22, 2014 Dance My favorite place on the Healy is the bridge, where you can survey the every-changing panorama of sea ice. There’s a chair exactly like the...
Ice Station Practice Jody Sperling May 30, 2014 Dance 1 Comment So far, I’ve gotten to dance during four ice stations. An “ice station” is when the Healy nestles up against an ice floe, drops anchor and the...
Time Lapse Dance Workshop Jody Sperling May 28, 2014 Dance 1 Comment The science team aboard the Healy has been incredibly generous in giving me impromptu tutorials in such topics as sea ice composition, melt pond...
Silhouettes Jody Sperling May 25, 2014 Dance 2 Comments I was rehearsing in the Healy’s hangar and decided to open the door to the helipad. Moving from inside to outside and back again, I was able to...
Hangar Heaven Jody Sperling May 19, 2014 Dance Finding adequate rehearsal space in NYC is tough. In March and April while preparing for Polar Vortex, my dancers and I rehearsed in seven different...
Dancing in the Arctic Jody Sperling May 15, 2014 Dance I’m aboard the Healy to conduct research—artistic, not scientific—for a choreography project entitled Ice Melt. While the science team will be...