The Body Politic
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Categories: Dance, Music
Dates: September 13, 2022 - September 20, 2022
Run Time: 45 mins
Venue: MAAS Building Studio
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Categories: Dance, Music
Dates: September 13, 2022 - September 20, 2022
Run Time: 45 mins
Venue: MAAS Building Studio
The Body Politic explores how individuals develop bodily techniques to negotiate with rigid regulations in totalitarian social environments. We question how highly concentrated power trickles down to private life and how tactics such as coercion, isolation, and fear-mongering affect the ways the physical bodies occupy time and space.
This work features original music composed by award-winning composers Hannah Selin and Sepehr Pirasteh. The music incorporates recorded voices from political prisoners in Sepehr’s home country, Iran, as well as clips from US President Eisenhower’s 1961 farewell address. Woven together with synthesized and acoustic percussion sounds, the music oscillates between violence and stillness, pushing the boundary between technology and nature.
Choreographer: Yao Xu, Composers: Sepehr Pirasteh and Hannah Selin, Dancers: Yuying Chen, Michaela Delaney Guthrie, Garamh Kim, Ella-Gabriel Mason, Sabrina Miller, Liz Siani, Boram Yi