On my way to America, 2015

1st - Innocence
2nd - Fire works
3rd – Walking on pieces 

​In a small dance studio space two wooden children's chairs are back to back, each holding a plastic gun and a white rose. Gingerbread cookies surround the chairs covering all the possible spaces to walk. The audience is seated around the space in an unconventional manner, disrupting the space between spectator and performer. After a glimpse of the objects and space, and in reaction to three distinct sound layers played loudly to fill the space, professional dancer LaurelSears creates an improvisational performance shaped entirely by the unpredictability of this audio/visual encounter.  The piece is designed to create a dialogue between the audience, the setting, and her movement, as she guides us through Innocence, the Event and the Emotion left behind afterwards.   Ms. Marques's deliberated and disciplined work ethic results in a tightly conceptualized body of work that requires contemplation and often participation. “I want to create an intimate space for reflection but also a place for conscious and unconscious participation” says the artist. “With this new pieces I found myself trying to justify the paradox of beauty and ugliness that we Americans face everyday.  Here is the Missoulian article, by Cory Walsh.