Jo Peace, Artistic Director for me.you.us.we.them

I strive to create work that communicates our interconnectedness. Using the physical form to intimately explore the complexities of the universal human experience, movement patterns may range from sculptural to gestural, frenetic to still, athletic to controlled and vary in energy and tone. My goal is to explore and expose how we relate to one another, our environments, and ourselves.

I work closely with my dancers to embody and illuminate the emotions driving our investigation. Naturally occurring gestures and physical responses become the basis of movement patterns which elaborate on the physicality of our emotions. This requires dancers to invest in the work with honesty and transparency in order to create material that is relatable, vulnerable, familiar and authentic. Ultimately, I want the work to feel immediate, and to spark empathy in the viewers as they connect to the layers of emotional truths contained in the performance.

me.you.us.we.them is a subsidiary of Quixotic Mettle, LLC

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Presently nomadic, working in various towns and cities, occasionally in need of a place to stay a night or few.

Interests

All of the things. Well, most of them.

• books
• theater
• performing arts
• dancing
• reading
• visual arts
• nature
• theatre
• waterfalls
• contact improvisation
• humans
• libraries
• making things
• modern dance
• fixing things
• feels
• critters
• all of the things!

Music, Movies, and Books

Mostly artsy weirdness and feelsy things and documentaries with some absolute absurdity mixed in.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Appeared onstage in performance with Pilobolus at the Joyce Theatre in NYC

Teach, Learn, Share

Modern and contemporary dance, contact improv

What I Can Share with Hosts

Tidy cleaning and fixy things, plus also: dance.