Battle Royale for the Soul of Our Country
1-hour movement based performance
in collaboration with Conrad Cheung
2024      
Above: Trailer.
This is a 1-hour durational performance in which six dancers wearing headphones create a colorful disruption to satirize the vision of a ‘culture war.’ These dancers comprise a flaccid would-be paramilitary that wiggles and glitters, laughing at polemics. This dance party comes one year after the Washington Post published leaked text messages invoking a ‘battle royale for the soul of UVA and a microcosm of what must happen across America to save the soul of our country.’ It aims to disrupt the day-to-day campus bustle with unexpected invitations for audience members to take themselves less seriously.


I directed this performance, including creation of a 1-hour dance mix with occasional voiceover prompts for spontaneous movement, in collaboration with the Institute for Improvisational Infrastructures/Conrad Cheung, for A Countercommons (The Trouble with Trouble), April 2024






Photos and videos by Conrad Cheung, Anna Hogg and Adrian Wood.

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Performers: Strings Applewood, Lee Brooke, Gabby Chirano, Skyler Heiser, Tedra James, Danny Loren, and various members of the public
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