In Intimacy for the Apocalypse, an unstable structure made of rope, slime, wooden levers, buckets, and streamers shifts over time as four dancers and a sound composer develop emergent, co-constituted logics to find stability and support within their material conditions. As the performers engage in gestural looping, tuning scores, and task-based scenarios, they develop new relational practices for embodied logics of survival. Reassemble investigates how bodies and environments can be reoriented out of collapse, giving way to intra- dependent speculative futures. It stages a world where bodies refuse categorization, shifting between discipline and defiance, chaos and clarity, desire and tension.

Choreographed by Emily Barasch in collaboration with Julianna Johnston and performers
Performers: Emily Barasch, Kate Ladenheim, Arushi Singh, William Ruíz Morales
Set and Design: Julianna Johnston
Lighting Design: Emily Witt
Sound Design and Live Composition: Jesse Perlstein

This project was supported, in part, by a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant.