BLiPSWiTCH is the beautiful collaborative dance brainchild of Taryn Lavery and Alex Miller and was recently hosting their newest piece, Unstill Life, at Wolf House in Austin, Texas.

Alex Miller, co-founder and co-director of BLiPSWiTCH

What always stands out about a BLiPSWiTCH production is the scale of the project and the venue. This project featured seven separate rooms in a 19th century mansion with seven separate performances featuring 1-4 amazing dancers.

Melissa Sanderson | Anna Bauer | Hailley Lauren

“BLiPSWiTCH welcomes you to the historic Wolf House for the premiere of our new work— Unstill Life— a self-guided durational movement performance. Fourteen dancers will inhabit six spaces, with each room and its cast embodying and investigating a distinct point in time— often through satire, occasionally with gravity, sometimes interrogating, but always exploring… and never taking ourselves too seriously. Travel through time with us, roaming freely and lingering at your leisure.”

Photographing each of these wonderful pieces during their final dress rehearsal posed unique and delightful challenges and I’m so grateful to Alex and Taryn, and all fantastic performers for letting me observe and share. Can’t wait for the next.

Having kids in Austin has indirectly exposed me to some of my very favorite things in Central Texas. One of those things was the Zilker Zephyr before it shut down in 2019. Though the Zephyr shut down after 60 years, what has happened in the previous two and a half years are a huge number of track repairs and improvements, new signage, new branding, and the Austin Parks Foundation taking over management of the fabled train… and also a new name: The Zilker Eagle.

Thanks to previously working with the Austin Parks Foundation, I was asked to photograph the delivery of the new train as it was being unloaded from the semi that hauled it from Arizona. Truly, it was everything my 39-year-old heart could have hoped: shiny cars, electric engines, forklifts, and an awesome group of Austin Parks Foundation and Austin Parks Department folks working together to finish up a project that will keep Austin wonderful for the next 60 years.

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