November 15 at 9 pm

ABYSS: post body is an iterative and site specific dance and sound performance that creates conduits for collective grief processing and examinations of the ways we perform ourselves in club culture and social gathering spaces. Created and directed by slowdanger, the work examines our bodies’ (abysses) states of being within public structures and its relationship to other bodies – the site, vibration, groove, physical labor, absurdity, power and release. ABYSS is a practice of instigating our bodies to be a site of change and protest within a burning world.

ABYSS: post body emerged from the rubble of SUPERCELL’s crumbling and cacophonous culminating monologue. It exists in extending the effort of protest in a dying world, calling into the void, and withstanding an inevitable decay. It is the final gasping breath from within the crevice of a cracked and scorched earth burning amidst environmental decay, and collapsed infrastructure.

The 30 minute work opens with a physical performance intervention that segues into a live techno set, inviting audiences to transition from viewing the work into activating the dance floor. The work is responsive to place and site, shape shifting to the container it is presented within. Iterations of this piece have been featured in a black box theater, restaurant/nightclub, an abandoned Pennsylvania boat warehouse, a parking garage and an Amsterdam nightclub.