stories about dancing together (2018-2020)

this series began during my master’s studies in berlin, during the research semester before our final performance thesis. i was trying to research the transformative power of people dancing together. my theory was simple: if apartheid (apartness) is a kind of state-social-choreography that has been trained-ingrained in my body, then perhaps the most efficient way to re-train-dis-ingrain the embodied vocabulary of apartness would be through dancing/moving in unison with others. that’s how i pitched it to my teachers. there were, however, many flaws with my reserach methodologies.

and indeed at the time, i was experiencing a serious clinical depression and could not actually work very well. instead the research became a project of forcing myself to dance with people, as an attempt to draw myself out of my depression and feel some sort of connectin or joy – it didn’t work. in the end, i almost failed and i was still depressed. but i did enjoy the quick-typewriter-zine method, and the practice of typing up a story about my experience of dancing together.