Trashflower

September 4-5 and 12-13, 2025
ARC EDGE Residency at Counterpulse, San Francisco, CA

Choreography and performance: Zoe Huey and Rose Huey
Sound design: Kevin Lo
Lighting design: gg torres
Photoshoot: Melissa Wong
Trash Fairies: Christina Blanco, B Dean, Rebecca Fitton, Judy Schonenbaum, neighbors who put out sidewalk treasure
Science consultants: Shelley Moore, Rachel Maxwell
Photography of performance: Robbie Sweeny

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

Program note from the creators:

making this piece, which is just the beginning, is a way for us to grapple with / move through / digest/ process the immensity, horror, and grief of our individual and collective enmeshment with plastic. 

what does it mean to be a living body collaborating with a material that degrades but doesn’t decompose? 

this piece doesn’t seek to answer or solve anything, and is itself in a continual state of arrival and becoming.