Materiality of Surrender is a dance performance set in an evening parking lot, where two dancers move with a live band and real-time visuals. A car, transformed into an organic machine, holds two TV monitors—like internal organs—blending into a landscape of cables and trees.
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Live cameras, snaking like inspection cables, capture intimate and unsettling perspectives—inside performers’ mouths, across their skin, through their eyes.
Moving through denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance, the performance embodies the five stages of grief, merging bodies, live visuals, and machine to explore the act of surrender.