AFTERLIFE (2022)

Afterlife, is a paranoid playground, a site for speculative futurities, and derailed interpretations of a renaissance that never really happened. While the performance dives into some of the ghostly materials from western high culture dance history, it moves through a series of twisted dances from the late Italian Renaissance and early French Baroque. Only, to explode into weird pop-cultural landscapes, where subtle traces from Britney’s banger, hit me baby one more time, Andrzej Zulawski’s subway scene from Possession, and distorted yoga-mom inspired materials come to life.

Carried out by three performers, signifying bodies historically deemed unfit to partake in the development of Euro-centric dance history, Afterlife reconstructs a sequence of choreographies hijacked from the early modern archive.