For Robert Moses, rehearsal is full of amazing, beautiful, wonderful things that nobody else will ever see.
When Robert Moses was a young member of Twyla Tharp Dance and ODC, he threw himself into performance with the spirit of an athlete. Today, his artistic life is less about performance, the “jumping over people’s heads,” and more about sharing – with himself, with students, with other dancers.
In addition to teaching at Stanford, Moses choreographs (recently for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater) and leads the San Francisco-based Robert Moses’ Kin Dance Company. He also writes, makes films and composes music. The track heard here is his own.
That backstage work isn’t only about preparation for something public. It’s also about letting dance escape the ego, letting movement justify its own existence.
“It’s satisfying to just be in there doing it,” Moses says, “the amazing, beautiful, wonderful things that nobody else will ever see.”
Ducks of Stanford
Quotes from an anonymous survey sent out to student dorms are written on prints of photographs of ducks representing Stanford students
2018
Digital photography prints
By Soraya Fereydooni '20
Oxymoron
“Oxymoron” defies norms with the bond between a fierce girl warrior and her majestic dragon companion, embodying unity amidst contrast.
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2024
Watercolors and inkpen on mixed media paper
By Lavinia Pedrollo '28
Summertime in Korea
This is the first of an ongoing watercolor series completed under shelter-in-place, based on photos that friends have sent of their favorite views.
2020
Watercolor
By Clementine Chou '20
La Honda Mushroom
This is an image of a mushroom found on a trail off Old La Honda Road. I wanted to create a mystical yet comforting feeling surrounding the mushroom.
2018
Photography
By Nicholas Robles '20
Rancho de San Luis, JAL, MX
August on my family’s ranch in Jalisco, México.
2017
Environmental Photographs
By Kamilah Nicalli Arteaga '22
Utopia No. 1
Inspired by the works of Nina Katchadourian, this piece uses materials scavenged from the Stanford campus to explore the definition of “city.”
2018
Paper Maps on Cardboard
By Elias Gálvez-Arango '
Let Her Eat Cake
I sought to express the conflicting emotions-guilt as well as pleasure-associating with eating cake.
2016
Ink Resist on Paper
By Brooke Ferber '20
Sonic Ovum
This piece started as a blank page and turned into a take on modern ignorance rendered in colored pencil and typewriter ink.
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2020
colored pencil, poetry
By Sam Howell Petersen '23
Hand over hand
Our hands – bridges, sinewy tendons & arteries – among the last parts dissected because of their distinctly human character.
2015
Photography; De-identified photo taken for artistic purposes with permission from anatomy professors.
By Maia Mosse '20
Coronavirus, Capitalism, and Connectivity: Monochroming what was once in Colour
Representation of an Asian woman navigating a worldwide pandemic, situated in the centre of racial prejudice, capitalism, & social media connectivity.
2020
Scanned magazine collage, colour pencils, and pen on Sketchbook
By Crystal Chen '22