Live Performance
Sandtimer
Performance
March 2023
How does an old thing resurface? Andy and collaborators sewed a 20 by 24 inch fabric piece to replicate an ocean floor. Using their voices and the echoey ecology of the room to sing and move, as if a giant, recently deceased whale is slowly bubbling to the surface, full of gases and decay, yet rising once more before incorporating into the environment. Andy is constantly influenced by the natural world and deeply reflects on the relationship between decay, nature, and manmade environments to understand this epoch of anthropocene,.
Dancers/collaborators:
Emma Garthwaite, Mason Brown, Andy Giovale
A graduating performance part of IMPACT performance festival
A Night of Perfumance
December 2022
In collaboration with SAIC Olfactory Art Class, SAIC Modern Dance Club created a night of dance improvisation using scented fans to influence movement and waft engaging aromas to the audience. The perfumance lasted 45 minutes and engaged audience members.
Limbs
Dance
May 2023
SAIC Modern Dance Club, created by Andy Giovale and Emma Garthwaite, collaborated with the SAIC Olfactory Art Class to tie scented strands of fabric amidst the trees. Dancers moved with the architecture of trees, and journeyed through emotions and prompts inspired by the scented strands. Limbs was an improvised modern dance using structures inspired by the surrounding ecology and scents.
I am Sitting in a Room- Alvin Lucier response
Dance
March 2022
This piece was made in response to Alvin Lucier’s sound piece “I am Sitting in a Room” which rerecords his voice until all that is left are frequencies. It takes 45 minutes for this process to unfold. To accompany this sound piece, I repeated the same dance phrase each time he rerecorded the statement. Between each set, I cut a little bit of my clothes off until there was nothing left, similar to his voice. Over my body was projected a sped up time lapse of rotting fruit, playing with multiple elements of time. This showed the process of time stripping something down through repetition and distorting the nature of things with my clothes, the fruit disappearing, and Alvin’s voice becoming nothing but frequencies.
Home
Performance
October 2020
In collaboration with my sister, Katie Giovale, who is a dancer, performer, and aerialist. This piece was a drive by performance piece organized by The Interference Series, a performance group in Flagstaff, AZ. Because it was not possible to house a performance indoors due to COVID, this piece took place outside as audience members drove by. There were 10 artists, Katie and I being one of them as the audience drove through town to visit fantastic front yard exhibitions.
Toxic
Performance and Video
May 2019
Many of the water in this world has been obviously and not so obviously contaminated by human impact. “Toxic”, explores the seen and unseen toxicity in water, and the obvious yet often unseen nature of climate change and waste. It explores how this change affects our everyday lives in altering resources like water, how it is both subtle in the moment, and obvious over time. This video is a video I projected onto a wall and danced in front of it, manipulating the image. At the end of the performance I drink from a glass of water to ground the audience in the present. I also discuss the toxicity of Lake Michigan, a lake 5 minutes away form where I was performing. This also brings the audience to the present here and now, highlighting that human impact on the planet, on water, is not an abstract or distant concept, but something that is being dealt with in the here and now everywhere