In/tense

Part of the Pōneke Festival of Contemporary Dance 2024.

"The Earth is full of refugees right now both human and non-human without refuge." Donna Haraway (eco philosopher, 2015).

Where is the heart inside what home? Where is the home inside what heart? In a society racing.

This new solo is about disparity, homelessness and displacement, and how the contemporary western world others others to avoid vulnerability. How can we walk each other home?

Framed inside a AI ChatGpt screen, this solo looks at facing fear and vulnerability as a generative emancipatory force. It works with movement, sound, performance art, text, music and video to present an embodied musing on these questions and the notion of walking each other home so no-one is left behind. Staying with the trouble.

This work has been developed as a 25 minute piece for Grace Exhibition Space at one of NYC's primary performance art venue as part of their Spring Season as a work in progress funded by Todd Trust.