Knowledge Bank

My research project, Onions in Everything: choreographic representations of the American food system, culminated in a dance performance that premiered in December 2018. It demonstrates how a finite aspect of the food system, a single food pantry in Columbus, Ohio – the Near Northside Emergency Materials Assistance Program (NNEMAP) – is related to the greater system that contains it. The choreographic work highlights the stories and efforts of the clients, volunteers, and staff of the NNEMAP food pantry while exposing dysfunction within the larger American food system. One of my priorities was to build a piece collaboratively, working with the six dancers who would perform Onions in Everything.