Katrina De Wees: What spaces excite you most about dance? By this, I mean are there any specific spaces that inspire your creative mind? Or are there specific dance venues that you tend to find stimulating and exciting? And if so, why?
Patricia Faolli: The streets are my main place of inspiration. I don't see my projects being performed on stage anymore, I like to think of spaces that have character and also bring history, details and new elements to the performance itself. Looking around the city, noticing the everyday choreographs of people walking by, the sounds of the subway, the colors of concrete. I believe the best inspirations come from the environments that surround any artist, being able to look at the simple and everyday things, but seeing beyond.
KD: How often do you find yourself in a dance studio?
PF: Five days a week.
KD: Do you identify as a dancer? Do other people identify you as a dancer?
PF: I do not. I identify myself as a performance artist. Although movement and the body are a big focus of my work, I like to use as much forms of art as I can.
KD: How often do you see works of live dance on stage?
PF: Not as much as I would like.
KD: When did you begin dancing?
PF: If you consider dance as movement I believe we begin dancing as soon as we are born, the difference is how people pursue, study and try to understand movement in their own bodies. I started studying theories and technique a few years ago but I've been interested in the possibilities of movement of my own body since I first started drama classes in 1998.
KD: Why do you keep dancing or what keeps you going?
PF: New possibilities and ideas.
KD: Where do you live currently? Or what spaces have you lived between this past year?
PF: Brooklyn
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