Care and Symmetry: Beth Gill’s Electric Midwife

Challenging us to see how symmetry can manifest care, Beth Gill’s 2013 dance piece, Electric Midwife, performed at the Museum of Human Achievement in Austin, TX, features women, stillness and water, uniting what is symmetrical in all our lives—the need for care of body and communion with others. This review must acknowledge that the performance was filmed and as such, the experiential impact of being in close proximity with these moving and breathing bodies was lost.