The Yard hosts a free, open performance from its choreographer in residence, Ana Isabel Keilson, on Thursday at 5:30 p.m. at the barn theatre on Middle Road near Beetlebung Corner in Chilmark.

Ms. Keilson moves about dance from every angle: she has previously worked with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, she was the film and video archivist for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, she has taught as a guest lecturer at Bowdoin College and Barnard College/Columbia University, she has a free, DIY publication called ‘the zine,’ promoting the art and ideas of the NYC-based dance community.

Her work is about the spirit and power of doing it yourself.

Her own Web site explains her work this way: “Through an investigative, collaborative creative process that uses body rhythms, text and visual maps, Ana’s work features a small ensemble of stunning performers and is often performed in silence — highlighting the musical, the kinetic, the sustainable, and the adaptable underlying her choreographic vision. Ana’s dances are a unique blend of the physical and the intellectual that embodies the youthful intensity and female intimacy marking the line between the playful and the terrible, between childhood innocence and adult experience.”

The Boston Phoenix described it this way: “The details of Keilson’s [work]... read like Firebird played au naturel.”

We describe it this way: a chance to see free city creativity in Chilmark.