AFTER DJ KEPLER/ 2022

Performance/VideoArt

“The Axis” is a determining unit for the vocabulary of the piece; the dancers are guided by the transference of “The Axis” which is both a thing usurped and a thing surrendered. Unassumingly, each dancer participates in a process with a particular ‘double valency’; while designing the physics of the piece in real-time, they are being forced and piloted by the very physics they are creating. Matter, orbital space debris, and bodies are driven on and around the stage with an intense hyperawareness of themselves; the destination seems as dark and vacuous as it is self-satirizing. Imagine a disco ball dislocating from the ceiling and shattering in space.

Text by Penelope Ioannou

Created for Second Avenue Dance Company Fall Season 2022