MOUTH ROT

Overview

MOUTH ROT is an attempt at describing the indescribable, a yearning for the unknown, forgotten about, and deeply cherished after to the point of laughter + fatigue til the bodys taken over, & all thats left is green light, black leisure, an intrusive thought, and a solo-ish dance theater routine. Its about doing nothing until something happens and knowing that it will because it just always does. Its an opportunity to allow the pupils to expand across the eyeball, in the mirror, until a wild look grows across your face. Its about using your nose as a snout and becoming feral. Sniffing the ground, and smelling your own pussy and then saying it outloud. Saying I smell my pussy and I am wild. Im in full blown listening mode and I could go at this forever! and then going forever because you were led to this moment, shamelessly & wildly. And then you feel your body begin to sweat and then you know that you are alive. Its about plugging in your microphone and screaming about all that your father taught you and then moving on. Just dropping that and accepting that -It is- about crouching your upper back to channel your great, great, great grandma. It’s about opening your GOD MOUTH and then realizing in excitement My god mouth is open!!!, then becoming a vessel. In her image. This is the fire you know. You can move. Now its a song. Now youre the chosen one. Now you turn away from the mirror and ask yourself, Is it my love Im seeking?. MOUTH ROT spits on the ground and slides its body in it. Get your mind out of the gutter. Now put it back in and let the MOUTH ROT in.

About the Artist

Micah Lat (he/they/it) is a black, trans, + queer multidisciplinary performance artist based in Lenni Lenape Land (aka philadelphia) who received their BFA in Dance from the University of the Arts in 2022. Their work is deeply invested in rigorous playfulness and leisure as avenues to making new black+trans inclusive performance structures, with the belief in an art making approach that is whimsical, seductive, and poetic. At the University of the Arts, Lat worked with artists whove informed their current practice such as Marguerite Hemmings, Fana Fraser, Bill T. Jones, Thom White, Jonathan Gonzalez, and Isabel Lewis. Post graduation, Micahs work has been shown in dance festivals including Cannonball, Fringe, Kindling, and Movement Research at Judson Church in New York. Theyve shown film at The Lino x Kino Exhibit in Connecticut, performed in sound shows at Icebox Project Space, and most recently performed in Tierra Whacks 27 Club music video. In addition to these creative pursuits, Micah Lat is a content creator, event coordinator, a current Artist in Residence at Mascher space, and will begin their Artist in Residency at The Painted Bride with Very Good Dance Theater beginning Summer 24.