Getting to Know Evolve Dynamicz - NACHMO Boston Interview

by Nicole Harris

All Photos by McCarthy Visuals

​We're excited to share our interview with Lisa Costello and Nicole Zizzi from
Evolve Dynamicz! 

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N:  Can you talk a bit about how Evolve Dynamicz came about?  How would you describe your work?
L&N:  In the summer of 2015, Lisa Costello and Nicole Zizzi met by chance through a project put together by a local Boston choreographer. In October of 2015, Evolve Dynamicz was established, with the hope of creating a repertoire to share the mutual  passions for life and movement. In September of 2016, Evolve brought on their first set of new members and has continued to grow into what they are now. Evolve Dynamicz has become an oasis for this unique group of strong willed people— as they each face their own individual life challenges, they support each other and find common ground through the arts of dance, choreography, and movement.
As artists, we seek to confront the challenges of a millennial life with a sense of openness and vulnerability. Our work embraces these challenges with curiosity, intimacy, playfulness, and a deep- seated passion for movement. Our interests in improvisational composition, site specific choreography, and collaboration with our dancers are brought forth in our choreographic processes.  With this, we aspire to continually experiment with new vocabularies, ideas, collaborators, and mediums of expression— we are committed to sharing our passion of dance with audiences in all spaces, of all types.

N:  How do you and Nicole divide responsibilities within the company?  Do you generally choreograph together?
L&N:  Together we make the decisions and final choreographic choices. We meet weekly to make sure we are on track administratively as well as in the studio. Our choreographic process varies with each piece we do! For our last show SPACES, we did each piece collaboratively, but recently we decided to explore choreographing separately and seeing how our work compliments each other. We’re still a fairly young company, so we are doing a lot of experimentation. :)   

N:  What are you most excited about for this year’s National Choreography Month?
L&N:  We’re excited for another year of sharing our creations with the greater Boston dance community and seeing what our dancing friends have been up to! This will also be Nicole’s first performance post hip reconstruction surgery!

N:  What changes in your process to build a piece in such a short time span (one month)?  How long do you usually take to create work?
L&N:  With a short time span, we need to streamline things a bit, so we will do less of our improv work that would normally help us build a piece and we will focus more on our choreographic notation.  The notation helps us sort out choreographic ideas on paper outside of the studio. It is a way for us to step back from getting overwhelmed with movement possibilities and look at things with a more abstract eye.

​N:  Who are some of your favorite choreographers?
L&N:  William Forsythe, Andrew Winghart and Justin Peck