USA Projects

As a visual artist and choreographer, Juniper and Zoe are drawn together as collaborators by their respect for and subverted use of classical form, aesthetic clarity and the desire to create a sense of heightened reality. As a choreographer, Zoe is interested in using the self-command and physical distortion of classical ballet technique: i.e. turned out legs that display pointed feet, placement, and disciplined physical articulation. The deconstruction and reassembly of movement takes place through an investigation into the skeletal structure of form.  Converted in this way, movement becomes a clear palate for emotion, intention and the viewer's perception.  For his part, Juniper composes the visual and emotional elements of design with simple lines and a spatial clarity to create and highlight an exaggerated or elevated reality. It is within this synergistic space that the performance and installation- and the viewer's perception of it – happens.

Zoe and Juniper both seek a distilled clarity of technique in their discipline so as to offer an unfettered vehicle through which the audience can experience the piece with their own history, desire, and emotions.

Zoe Scofield and Juniper Shuey began their collaboration in 2004 with, I am nothing without you, for On the Boards' NW New Works Festival 2005.  This began a series of collaborative projects between Juniper and Zoe that spans both visual arts and dance / performance.  Zoe and Juniper were commissioned by On the Boards in 05/06 for their NW Artist Series with there ain't no easy way out, which was adapted for touring to Find your own way out and presented by Jacob's Pillow Inside/Out, Bumbershoot, The Southern Theater, ODC Theater, Velocity Dance Theater as part of SCUBA 2007.  Spectrum Dance Theater, the Frye Art Museum and Ten Tiny Dances have commissioned the in company 2007, 2008 and 2009 respectively.  Zoe, Juniper and composer/ musician Morgan Henderson were the co-creators of the Secret of Gold Festival in 2006, an annual multi-disciplinary arts festival in Arlington, WA. They received a NPN Creation Fund and Residency commission, and a National Dance Project Production Grant (2008-2009) for their work the devil you know is better than the devil you don't.  the devil you know… premiered at PICA's TBA Festival in September 2007, followed by performances at On The Boards (Seattle), Wesleyan University's Dance Masters (Middleton CT), Bates Dance Festival (Lewiston, ME), Dance Theater Workshop (NYC), ICA Museum Boston/CRASHArts, and Myrna Loy Center (Helena, MT) 2008-2009. Old girl, their collaboration with Holcombe Waller was originally commissioned by Spectrum Dance Theater and later presented at On the Boards' NWNW Festival 2009.  zoe | juniper are recipients of an Artist Trust Fellowship and GAP grant and received a National Dance Project Production Grant  (2009-2010), NPN Creation Fund and Trust for Mutual Understanding and Dance Theater Workshop Suitcase Fund Grant for A Crack in Everything  (ACIE) which will premier in July 2011 and tour nationally throughout 2012/2013.  ACIE was and will be in residence and in process performances at Trafo House of Contemporary Art (Budapest), Arts Center and The Body Festival (New Zealand), Bates Dance Festival, Open Flight Studio (Seattle), the MacDowell Colony, Jacob's Pillow Creative Development, On the Boards and MAD AIR at the Stella Adler Studio.

In 2007 they choreographed and collaborated with Dave Matthews for his Eh Hee video.  Zoe and Juniper's ongoing photographic and video collaborations have been shown in solo exhibits at the Howard House, 2005/06 Tacoma Art Museum Biannual, Arts Center/SOFA Gallery (New Zealand) and PONCHO Gallery. In 2008 they published White Teeth, a book of their photographic collaborations which is available for purchase at blurb.com