This is a split bill performance between Canzonieri Dance Collective and Bart.Co Dance Company. "Fragmentation" and "Phase 1" come together to talk about the complex concepts of distress, grief, and reflection. These dance performances help cope with the emotional strain of our environments.

“Fragmentation” is a story-book, with scenes of isolation, pain, abuse, and self-realization. Flipping through the pages is coming to terms with the reality of your environment, grieving what you are becoming, and starting the work to do all you can to break the cycle. Through a 30-minute dance performance, we are learning from the grief so we don’t become a product of our environment and disrupt the pattern for ourselves. Comprising of six chapters, the dancers are narrating: “fear of isolation”, “fear of home”, “fear of going to sleep”, “exhaustion catching up”, “the breakdown”, and “how do we break the cycle?”.

For the unforeseable future, women and the marginalized will have to deal with the effects of the results from the 2025 presidential election. The daily stages of grief can feel like a singular process, but through the medium of dance, this will be a collective effort to help cope with the war waged on people’s human rights. Current events, personal experiences, and internal emotions were used to create “Phase 1”, a 20-minute dance performance that highlights the first two stages of grief to convey our disappointment and disdain for the future that we have been thrust into. The piece showcases rage and numbness through vigorous and athletic movement. This is only a part of a larger evening-length piece, "mindFUCK", coming in 2027.