Tia Kramer and Tamin Totzke: approaching proximity

As part of Six Weeks, In Time, Tia Kramer & Tamin Totzke present a durational performance that prioritizes human connection to challenge contemporary notions of efficiency. Influenced by motion studies experts Frank and Lillian Gilbreth’s 18 elemental gestures of efficiency and inefficiency a group of performers will transform object-oriented gestures into human-to-human relationships.

Tia Kramer is a multi-media artist, designer and director influenced by pedestrian interactions with the spaces we inhabit. Kramer studied at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has a BA from Macalester College. Tamin Totzke is a choreographer, dance educator and improviser who works to physicalize the reciprocal relationship between body and environment. Totzke received her MFA in dance from the University of Illinois.

The choreography was developed in collaboration with the perfomers: Grant Bowen, Jeff Huston, Mary Margaret Moore, and kt Shores.

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Tia Kramer and Tamin Totzke. rest/forward (from a collaborative performance series, The Study of Time and Motion, that reactivated the eighteen elemental gestures of efficiency and inefficiency identified by motion studies experts Frank and Lillian Gilbreth, 2015). Dancers: Aaron Swartzman and KT Shores. Image courtesy of the artists. © Bruce Clayton Tom.