Lucy Dillon (RADFest)
Artist Statement
Lucy Dillon presenting soft belly/steel as part of RADFest 2026.
The duration of the performance is 30 minutes. This event is FREE. Registration is requested. To register: https://www.simpletix.com/e/17th-annual-regional-alternative-dance-fes-tickets-250674
Complete RADFest Events and Schedule: https://wellspringdance.org/rad-events
soft belly/steel exposes the precarious tendrils of support that connect bodies together to create structures of survival. The work positions the performance space as an autonomous world where the cast of movers can access the vulnerability typically suppressed under patriarchal hegemony. Working collaboratively through a structure of games and competitive tasks, dancers play within an invisible, kinetic logic. Moving through states of power, precarity, delicacy, and brutishness – the collective performing body casts an energetic spell to submerge into an interconnected consciousness.
Lucy Dillon is a dance artist investigating the utility of movement for claiming embodied agency. Her work declares aliveness and unapologetic presence by researching precarity, impulse, and gravity in the body. Lucy has shared her choreography nationally – including at venues such as: Ailey Citigroup Theater (New York), Ruth Page Center (Chicago), and Levy Dance (San Francisco). She has been an artist-in-residence at Columbus’ Urban Arts Space, Levy Dance, Iowa Choreography Festival, and SAFEhouse Arts. As a performer, Lucy danced with Malashock Dance Company, Polaris Dance Theater, and Call It Art. Currently, Lucy dances with Abby Z & The New Utility. Lucy created choreography for dance majors at The Ohio State University, bringing a solo work to American College Dance Association’s Midwest Conference, and for Denison University’s Dance Company. She has an MFA in Dance from The Ohio State University, and in 2024 was selected as an ATLAS Choreographer at ImPulsTanz in Vienna, Austria.
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