Created in 2023 with support from Dance Canvas, Dependent Variable is an aerial dance film that explores how outside forces guide the ebb and flow of relationships. Individual worlds colliding as the result of happenstance combined with choice. Friends finding a path of connection in spite of outward pull, a relationship cut short, a rooted connection that enables true support. All of the relationships being woven together by the pendulous, sine wave-esque movement that results from being suspended by rope and harness. 

​​Support for development provided by Dance Canvas Inc

Choreography, direction, production by Emily Stratton

Music composition by Josh Stratton

Editing by Carl Perkins & ADAYliving

filming by Anna Wiman

Photography by Francois Bergeron-Proulx

Lighting design and tech by Abby Auman