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A FEW SELECTED
BMCM+AC {Re}HAPPENING 13 at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center on May 3rd from 3:00 – 11:00pm at Black Mountain College Lake Eden Campus. (Just outside of Asheville, NC). Maurice Moore and I present TechPlay, a durational performance work.
This immersive, evolving installation integrates movement, light, and technology to inspire play and engagement. Heather Coker Hawkins + Dr. Maurice Moore are educators and artists committed to fluidity of exploration and unsettling rigid structure, categorization, and definition.
Quest for Resolve, a single channel video installation, won second place in the New Media category at the 2024 UFVA Conference July 30-Aug 2 held in Cleveland, OH. This is my second effort using a webpage component in tandem with an installation project and the first time designing in Twine.
This video installation was included in the 2024 SECAC Juried Exhibition in Atlanta, GA from Oct 23 – 26. Quest for Resolve enjoyed screening from Oct 2-20, 2024 at the CICA Museum FORM 2024 Exhibition in Gimpo-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea.
On June 22, 2024, our collaborative team presented 24hr Assemble Durational Performance at the PSi #29 Conference (London). Check out our YouTube playlist to watch the conference presentation or see our sketches and remixes leading up to the talk.
The dance film Shadow Self was selected to screen at the Portland Film Festival Oct 16 -20. The film screened February 9, 2024 Artists for Hope International Dance Film Festival Houston, TX. I am so honored my film was one of eight from all submissions selected screen in the concert. It makes my heart swell that concert proceeds benefitted Grace After Fire, Helping Women Veterans Help Themselves transition into civilian life.
Shadow Self was included in the 2025 Sans Souci Festival of Dance Film program Women’s History Month Virtual Screening for the entire month of March.
A new dance piece, From Me to You for Us, debuted at the Modern Dance Primitive Light Circle Modern Dance concert at the Laurel Theater, Knoxville, TN in December 2023 and the Knoxville Opera Rossini Festival Saturday, April 20, 2024.
August 2, Gravity Wins screened in the Experimental Film Program at the 2024 University Film & Video Association Conference in Cleveland, OH.
November 6 – 26 San Souci Festival of Dance Cinema Boulder, CO. The dance film Gravity Wins screened at the festival.
Friday, October 27th from 5:30 – 7:00 pm
@ the McClung Museum 1327 Circle Park Drive Knoxville, TN 37996
FREE and Open to the Public
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This film was made as part of the 2023 Embodied Documentary Workshop by IMPRINT Documentary Collective.
head heels over (2023) performance on video
Collaborations can be fruitful, fitful, and sometimes both. The opponent or obstacle is sometimes internal. This dance film is an exploration of a lifelong collaboration (and constantly shifting relationship) with my dance partner, Gravity. Mostly predictable, not always kind, I accept the challenge to dance with you again. I resist the inevitable failure our collaboration promises.
Gravity Wins will screen at the 2023 San Souci Festival of Dance in Boulder, CO in September. The film also screened at the UNDER_the_RADAR Festival and Conference for Artistic Film, Animation and Experimental Sequential Media in Vienna, Austria this April. The film screened at the 2023 Greensboro Dance Film Festival in February and was a nominee for the LA Independent Women Film Awards.
This is a Process… 2022 Exhibit
Pretty Little Dance is a dance film co-directed by Victoria Marks and Heather Coker Hawkins. Choreographed by Victoria Marks and performed by Alexx Shilling, this film is a reimagining of a live performance work. The film premiered at the 2021 San Souci Festival of Dance Cinema in September. Website.
Practice is a 1-minute film repurposing a scene from the short film Pumercial. The focus of this film is repetition, accumulation, the body in performance of sport (particularly discus throwing), and satisfaction. The original film, Pumercial, explores the concepts of appropriating sports movement into dance, branding, and failure.
The One Who Wears Red is a short narrative film in conversation with Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz. This narrative differs in that it follows the struggle of a middle-aged woman in search of her self despite a full slate of assumed roles. The pressures of life and loved ones fuel and confuse emotions leading to droll scenes of dysfunction.
This is a video document. Here Lies Frank is a live dance piece with video projection. The piece is a critical homage to filmmaker Sergio Leone, composer Ennio Morricone, and cinematic sound design. Unfortunately, the live foley artist is not visible in this video.
This is a video document. Pretty Good for a Girl is a live dance piece with integrated video projection. Concepts explored are women athletes, dominant representations of femininity, expectation and limitation. Artist inquiry: how can I create a trio using 1 performer and 2 screens?
This is a video document. Say Uncle is a live dance and video projection performance. This piece explores embodied grief and memory. It uses false narrative, sound, and juxtaposition to challenge perception.
RightHand is a short film that uses movement, camera, and location to explore the term right-hand while experimenting with cinematographic idiom and discontinuity. This film complicates as much as it pieces together fragmented narrative told in voice over, sometimes synchronized with movement, implying ritual through repetition.
Some credits: IMDb
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