materiality of surrender

An evening-lenght piece on encountering the deadly fact of the coming human extiction. Performance (70min), CalArts and L.A. Dance Project, Los Angeles, 2024

A performance in three parts for two dancers, three musicians and a car. The piece offers to grieve late capitalism and human civilisation as we know it and guides the audience through the so-called five stages of grief; denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. The piece speculates about new materialities of existence in sub-nature (mycelium and fungus), as well as in hyper-nature (cyborg, data and angels). It feels through these proposed modes, their embodiment, visuality and their haptic materiality. The evening closes with a ritual of hope for survival.

Premiered and produced at California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles as MFA Thesis in Chreography at Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance.

Credits

Performer: Annalise Gehling, Freeda Electra
Costume: Danica Martino
Life-Sound: TOUFANA aka Jules Johnston, Lou Tandon, Jacqueline Tsai
Video-Design: Wei-Fang Chang
Lights: Emma McManus
Video: Camila Vidal
Production Assistant: Bonnie Kim Director: Kim Dall‘Armi