Rendered via experimental video, improvisational dance practice, written archive, and photographic still, and accompanied by costumes designed by Latina-futurist, Larissa Almansa, MASCCHAOS imagines a choreographic microcosmos from beginning to vibratory end. With the shared knowledge of a cohort of women, queer, and non-binary co-authors from across the United States, Emadian chronicles the practice of seeing, watching, echoing, and of a shared experience of dancing alone together.
The work is accompanied by a virtual webbing of the interactions between Emadian and collaborators, and is being chronicled via instagram and blogging.
The piece premiered in the Links Hall (Chicago, IL) 2021 Co-MISSION Festival of New Works.
Choreographer: Elliot Reza Emadian (in collaboration with Phoebe Ballard, Kaleigh Dent, Allie Pfeffer, Lindsey Jennings, Madeline Mellinger, Heidi Brewer, Jessica Autumn Ziegler, Ali Lorenz, Kara Brody, Caitlin Rae Bottcher, Symone Sanz, Mauri Terra Connors, Elizabeth Burr, Maddie Hopfield, Meghann Trago, Michelle Burns, Dia Dearstyne Hoste, Mary Kate Ford, Sara Dotterer, Catalina Hernández-Cabal, Leah Wilks, Scheereya, Amanda Maraist, Julianna Boylan, Emma L. Anderson, Haley Van Patten, Anna Sapozhnikov, Lauren Queen, Halie Bahr)
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