Stone Marrow

Stone Marrow by Elizabeth Flinsch

Stone Marrow is a choreographic excavation—an embodied listening to the deep time held beneath the feet of three collaborators: Elizabeth Flinsch, Kayla Schiltgen, and Jesse Schmitz-Boyd. Anchored in the geological histories of the places they call home, the work attends to land not as backdrop, but as an active, remembering body. Rock strata, riverbeds, glacial scars, and sedimented ground become scores for movement, shaping how the dancers gather weight, yield, resist, and endure.

Stone Marrow traces the personal geography of belonging and yearning. Each collaborator draws from the places that feel most like home—sites alive with wonder and possibility, places that act as doorways to something not yet known. Through reflection and embodied memory, the dancers explore how these landscapes have shaped their inner terrain: the forces that have worn them down, the layers that have accumulated, and the fault lines that continue to shift.
As the work unfolds, past and present converge. The choreography navigates where the dancers have come from, where they stand now, and the uncertain steps ahead. In this meeting of geological time and human time, Stone Marrow asks how the landscapes we move through can awaken us—how paying close attention to land might reveal not only where we belong, but who we are becoming.