Choreographer - NYC - 2024

You’re a long legged slender creature. You touch down on a big green and blue rock known as earth. It’s day one. You must not be discovered. Someone tells you to type on a computer, blend in, what would you do?

“We've Been Human Forever” is a live dance collaboration between McCall McClellan, Isa Segall, and Josephine Brunner. The piece is a lighthearted quirky approach to the sincere question of what it means to be human. It arose out of the sensation of feeling alienated from one's own body and environment. We spent a lot of time exploring movement possibilities from two juxtaposing frameworks: "What would it be like to respond to this task like a person?" versus "What would it be like to respond to this task like an 'alien' or extraterrestrial?"

Most of our time and inspiration came from the surreal, Salvador Dali, and Wes Anderson. Ultimately, We've Been Human Forever abstractly explores the absurdity and caricature of Western "poshness," hyper femininity, and that being human may just amount to owning a dog.