About the Artist

Lu Anima has been creating ritual-based dance theater under the name Rogue Theology for roughly a decade, though often intermittently. Periods of silence and disappearance have been fueled by a growing disillusionment with competitive art systems that reward constant production, self-promotion, and scarcity over genuine transformation and communal meaning.

And yet, somehow, the work keeps returning.

Between nightlife labor, underground performance spaces, clown training, and ongoing spiritual inquiry, Lu continues to make performances that blur the sacred and the humiliating. The work emerges less from careerism than compulsion, a recurring need to wrestle publicly with suffering, transcendence, embodiment and the absurd labor of being human.

With a deadpan sense of humor and a devotion to embodied truth, Lu builds performances that ask: What does it mean to strive, to break, to transform? And more urgently: Do we self-actualize by mastering reality, or by surrendering to the larger forces shaping us through hardship, failure, and change? 

Rogue Theology straddles the mischievous and the mystical, treating performance not simply as entertainment, but as a site of transformation, inquiry and channeled energy. The work often looks like a ritual unraveling, a prayer misfiring, or a bad day suddenly illuminated from a higher vantage point where even suffering begins to reveal its strange purpose. 

Accessibility & Content Considerations

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This event is appropriate for ages 18+

Adult Language

Strobe/Flashing Lights

Audience Interaction

This performance includes sensual and erotic movement, with references to exotic dance and strip club aesthetics. There is no full nudity, but themes of sexuality, embodiment, and sacred sensuality are explored.

Covid-19 Safety policy

This event does not require masks to be worn