Zephyr is an experimental dance company questioning current trends in dancemaking, and the reduction of the art form to its most quantifiable, easily recognized patterns.

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Zephyr works to critically investigate the overreliance on virtuosity, popular definitions and/or understandings of dance, and the tendency to lean on narrative to inform the abstract nature of movement. Zephyr explores physical ideas through rigorous exercises and investigations to reveal dance where public definition claims it does not exist. Zephyr champions the aging performative body by creating work that highlights the strengths of the mature artist and presents that mature body alongside younger bodies on stage. Questioning and challenging approved roles and identities of viewer and performer, expanding and embodying new physical possibilities through research, and blurring the lines between performance space and audience seating opens up and uncovers new possibilities for how dance is presented.