Description: Dedicated to contemporary dance, Gearshifting Performance Works engages in research, new creation, commissions, re-constructions, performances, site specific work, installation work, teaching, studio showings, talk back sessions, and working with guest artists each season.
She seems to erase away irrelevance and is one of the few dancer-choreographers I’ve seen recently who presents an integrated, completed image of music, costume, lighting, and movement.
…Stripped to the bone of extraneous influence while focusing on the expressive power of movement itself.
Bailie is notable for intense concentration, extreme and pertinent gestural economy, an extraordinarily mobile and expressive torso and an ability to isolate and move parts of her body in disarming ways.