Working with instincts and archives bodies hold, this performance calls ghosts and possible futures into the room through a commitment to the moment. The work unfolds from a desire to meet the complexity, conflicts and contradictions that we embody. Trusting dancing as a practice of wayfinding, processes of gentle disorientation become a strategy for forgetting, losing and remembering ourselves. Haunting and haunted, dancing is understood as an oracular state. SERAFINE1369 is curious about the magic and mysteries of life-processes – distinction, variation, cycles, decomposition; the inevitability of movement.
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Concept, choreography, direction: SERAFINE1369Light design: Jackie ShemeshSound design: Josh Anio Grigg with SERAFINE1369Performance: Steph McMann, Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome, Eve Stainton, Darcy Wallace, Natifah White, Jamila Johnson-SmallRehearsal support: Maëva Berthelot, Nandi Bhebhe, Laura Dannequin, Mahika Gautam, Iona Hannagan-Lewis, Serra Kösebay, A. Livingstone, Leah Marojevi, Becky Namgauds, Isabella Oberländer, Luisa D Rozo, Rose Aïda Sall Sao, Andrea Soto, Gesiye Souza-OkpofabriVideo documentation: Phoebe Davies, Keziah QuarcooProduction: Metal & Water
A production by SERAFINE1369. Commissioned by BAC with support by Cockayne 10th Anniversary Grants for the Arts. With additional commissioning support from Sophiensæle and Fruitmarket Gallery. Media partners: Missy Magazine, Siegessäule, taz.