STATEMENT
I create work to try and make sense of the ways humanity tries to make sense of the absurd and beautiful world in which we live. I do this best by pulling things apart and smashing things together. I find poetry in juxtaposition, humor in mistranslation, and joy in the refraction of experience. By putting stuff where and when it doesn’t belong, I come closer to reconciling the how and the why.
Andy Russ is an interdisciplinary artist, educator and producer, based in Providence, RI. He creates work that moves freely between the genres of dance, theater, music and video, challenging the conventions of performance practice and audience expectation. Through processes of refraction, misappropriation, and serendipity, he playfully exposes the underlying poetry of the everyday, and questions the assumptions not only of our thinking, but also of the bodies and spaces in which we inhabit.