Today I Opened My Eyes (2023)

This is a dance for lingering and for enduring. For those who desire constant change but get stuck in their shoes. For those who are scared to leave something behind but are desperate to be rid of the present. For people who don’t know what the present means and are looking to feel it. For those who both love where they are at and can’t wait for the next thing. And for those stuck in all modes of time, not knowing whether or if to go forward or back.

Created in collaboration with the cast: Annika Witte, Charly Santagado, Ella Martin, Hayley Newell, Nailah Murray, Nate Tantral-Johnson

destruction as aesthetic pleasure

hurling heavy objects at beautiful things

low-grade pleasures (not doing things)

inverted time

Regression We learn to slip away from habit we can reckon with our idiosyncrasies and conflicting truths. the wisp of a creature purified into distinction

non-sequitir: a radical uncoupling of cause and effect, a visual wormhole

when does a body know what it wants

the adjacent space next to my problems

fakery

I LOVE DOING THINGS THAT I LOVE. I LOVE LOVING WHAT I LOVE. I LOVE LOVING WHO I LOVE. I LOVE CARING ABOUT WHAT I LOVE. I WOULD RATHER BRUISE YOU THAN LEAVE YOU FEELING UNLOVED.

MAKE ME FEEL HUMAN AND MAKE ME FORGET THAT I AM HUMAN

NUMB BUT THE MOST INTENSE PAIN EVER. AWAKE BUT UNAWARE. OUT OF BODY BUT THE MOST HUMAN YOU’LL EVER BE.

my thighs are strong and I have many homes

the unrequested expectation we create for ourselves

forced conciousness

Ego Thinking of bodies as objects that we choose to relate to, assign tasks to, assert power on, define.

the third option: to be neutral

minimalist presentation of maximalism

i'll be 3 if you call me at 3:30

taboo busting

decision making

i am an ant but i struggle to process the world as one