quietly you call me
April 2022
Second Annual Queering Dance Festival, Live Oak Theater, Berkeley
Sculpture made of tracing paper (drawn on with ink and pastel, dyed with beets, sewn together, cut through) and suspended onstage
Trashflower is a transdisciplinary study on plastic, death, grief, and transformation. Weaving together up-cycled plastic sculptural elements with dance practice, we explore the porous and invisible membranes between the organic and plastic body.
a giant plastic bag / mylar trash heaps / jellyfish / fish bodies / sisters / intimacy / breathability / lack of breathability / plastic-as-performer / otherworldly creatures / cacooning / crochet / death / grief / mundane memorials / playing our way through the horrors / microplastics as roommate / love