Societal roles are redistributed in Receipt Paper Dialogues, casting workers as the artists and consumers as the audience. When I worked in restaurants I would print out blank receipt paper to write down choreography, scores, and ideas. Now I am asking my community to engage in a creative performance practice by writing or drawing any score from their imagination onto receipt paper of their own. In performance, dancers and musicians react improvisationally to these community submitted scores. The audience is given control to change the scores live, allowing them to set the parameters of time and context. 

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Artists and audiences alike can practice creative liberation combating greed, desire, and duty. Inviting people to make personal receipt scores to task the artists with, speaks to the relentlessness of consumer demand, exploitation of under-paid employees and society's reliance on over-consumption to push the conversation of our shared future. Our focus is not to place limitations on these workers and consumers similarly to how it exists in our capitalistic world, but rather to test the power dynamics of giving both agency and voice to all participating roles. Dancers and musicians act as storytellers here, interpreting each score however they feel drawn to it whether through theatricality, movement, voice, or instrumentation. Their movement and their music become a radical act of choice – choosing how to and when to perform, and whether it's for themself or for the audience.