Work-In-Progress Showing
Within this work, dance artist Chloe Nagle and filmmaker Kym McDaniel investigate how psychosomatic “diagnosis” are consistently used to dismiss women, queer, and nonbinary people’s pain and health concerns. The medical industrial complex often denies how the interconnectedness of mind-body affects our health. As the artists reflect on their creative collaboration process and individual healing journeys, it’s clear that cultural values of individualism and willpower prove counterproductive to healing. This project asks, how can we work in collaboration and create a new work that supports an imaginative and holistic future for disabled, chronically sick, and/or traumatized people?
This is their first attempt at generating an immersive feedback system of video and dance improvisation structures to create interactions among audience, projection, and dancer(s). The projection has the agency to transform the landscape and emotional weather, creating the illusion of spatial boundaries and belonging (or lack thereof). The relationship between projection and dancer acts as a psychological feedback loop, physicalizing ways in which we are interconnected and affected by pain and the environment. The work values choice over control by creating performance structures with elements of unpredictability, a metaphor for how pain shapes our interaction with ourselves, other people, and the environment.
Tickets for all shows $7-$70. Suggested $20, pay as you are.