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Rehearsal Solo From Collision Course - a.k.a. Pillow Talk from Anthony Gongora on Vimeo.

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Between Seasons

Cold comes in

Swept from who knows where

Touches everything with stillness

Sound pulls back

Sheets of silence fill the empty

Hush hush - the sky's singular blue note

Branches quiver

Folios shiver lapping-up sunshine

Wind wraps around bundled bones clenching

Gut grinds

Heartbeats rapidly - ruminating

Inhaling the taste of season's sudden shift

Shadows deliriously dance through side window

Walls animated with jagged-edged silhouettes

Leafs retracting against chilly sunbeams

Pulsing this way and that way

Tempted to fall

Overlapping shadow upon shadow

Singularly, I lay

Covers pulled high

Wistfully longing

Reunions drift farther and farther apart

Clouds dissolving

Languishing

Teasing out amorphous impulses

I close my eyes

Daydreams turn to Mourning-dreams

Touch memories

Remember the missing

Translucent sleep forgot to wake

Spooning pillows in your place

I glance the sleepless side - hollow

Carved wood

Wet earth

Sleep's sweat-scent of two become one - gone

Nearness nevermore

Empty unknown growing

Ready for take-off

But as usual, underdressed for winter.

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Guided Meditation from Anthony Gongora on Vimeo.

This is an example of how I would end a dance class. I like to use the final 7-10 minutes of class to help center students. My students love this part of the lesson. If for whatever reason I miss a day students request the meditation. I invite you to do the meditation with me.

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Drop 3

One-of-a-kind ceramic vase, glazed and meticulously hand built.

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BioGeo 4

One of a kind - Ceramic Sculpture and Oil Paint meticulously hand built and painted by Anthony Gongora

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BioGeo 4 from Anthony Gongora on Vimeo.

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Portal from Anthony Gongora on Vimeo.

Anthony Gongora new short dance film Portal is inspired by the various windows that sustain our gaze. Portals we merge into and through like computer screens. All of which evolved into a dystopian nightmare of leaving our bodies and becoming computerized. The pandemic caused us to move into Zooming. Reality became digitized. We did not have to have computer chips placed into our bodies to be more interactive with technology. Inadvertently the pandemic forced our hand. And in Gongora’s nightmare vision we have left our bodies and become digital through zoom. World Premiere April 22, 2021, 7:30 PM - Organized by The Corcoran School Of The Arts & Design at the George Washington University. GWU dancers Violet Radmacher- Willis, Hall Wood, Elle Mcneil, Sophia Young & Lisa Roberts give brilliant performances. Accompanying the dance film Gongora created his first-ever Sculpture of sounds.

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Portal

Looking past your searching gaze

Words drift by 

Scenting the air with light particles

Amorphous solid stuck

No crystal lattice

To climb

Outside 

Ears tung tied 

Hearing multitudes 

Singularly seated 

Staring into pixels 

Vibrating decimals

Arching lumens layered quivering 

Solitary songs chirp, bleep, twitter, and buzz

Cubes form before me

Rectangles of light posturing

Bust framed heart to crown

Silhouetted edges

Vacant 

Lachrymal longing 

Tearducts dehydrated

Evaporating memories

Dangle peripherally

Mouths moving

Pausing 

Interrupting

Delayed time

Time-delayed 

Face to face 

Watch to eye

Glance the ticking arms

Gaps widen 

Closeness 

A tender touch

Through the looking glass

Every window watching

Fluttering lashes

Straining twin orbs

Glossed over 

Fogged lenses

Forced focus

Seeing but not being

Soul to soul 

Searching

Spiritual divide

Eyes once portals

Constricting pupils 

Sucking in the light

Blacked-out 

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Body Tracing Samples from Anthony Gongora on Vimeo.

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Duet For 1 (FB Version) - SD 480p from Anthony Gongora on Vimeo.

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Quintet For One (best) from Anthony Gongora on Vimeo.

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Quartet For 1 excerpts see the entire version on vimeo at http://vimeo.com/487907035. Enjoy! https://www.instagram.com/p/CIgAeEwBqAd/?igshid=jvjq9uw8t6yt

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When you can’t dance with others this is what happens to dancers. We make something up. Creativity is the best. https://www.instagram.com/p/CIf-14PhJhM/?igshid=1iymkj5ilhd65

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New Dance inventions while in the seasons of COVID. ENJOY! https://www.instagram.com/p/CIf-aPEhOf5/?igshid=1vvqnd4ulk3y

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Trio For 1, see the whole dance on vimeo - http://vimeo.com/487226527. Enjoy love and dance. https://www.instagram.com/p/CIf6Oz1h9iN/?igshid=16jtr0hxlktom

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Quartet For 1 from Anthony Gongora on Vimeo.

Quartet For 1 is a little dance video, which makes use of some classical composition tools. I start in unison, which is always so pleasing to the eye. There is something coded in our genetics that feels and knows the power of unity. Here I’m cheating a bit because it is only me dancing but the force in numbers still shines through. The next section is a canon. By chance, how I improvised the canon section also appears to rotate, which is cool. I follow the canon section with a duet double-timed. Speeding up movement is a great way to add an energy burst within a dance composition. In real-time, not cheating with video as I am here, double-timing is a challenge for dancers and so much fun to achieve. Between the movement sections - my codas if you will, I use stillness and gestures, and I introduce retrograde into the compositional mix. Counterpointing duets, come next. One couple is moving as I originally improvised and the other couple-me is dancing in retrograde. I love the complexity of the counterpoint. And, the switching of space from foreground to background between the duets. The music is by my dear and beloved friend David Pavkovic. Dave originally composed the music for another dance of mine, Last Turbulent Drought Supper. I recycled a section of the music for this dance and integrated the sound of my percussive feet connecting with the wood floor and my audible breathing. I did not compose or dance with Davids's music, I simply laid the music beside the dance, and by chance, the timing and feel of the two combined create something new to be interpreted. Enjoy! And more importantly, show the world your dance moves.

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Trio For 1 - SD 480p from Anthony Gongora on Vimeo.