Elemental Rites at the End of the World
Elemental Rites at the End of the World is both postmodern performance and a ritual for confronting climate crisis. Incorporating movement and spoken text, drawing on Butoh and pagan ceremony, this work demands attention to subtlety with the understanding that it is attachment to experiencing extremes that has brought us to this epoch of global crisis. It is in dialogue with M Archive: After the End of the World by Alexis Pauline Gumbs.
Elemental Rites at the End of the World was premiered on March 1, 2019, as part of Columbus Dance Alliance Works #2 at the Wexner Center for the Arts. It was also performed as part of the Southern Queer Magic exhibition at the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge on June 7, 2019, and again as part of Art in the Anthropocene: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Performance, Technology, and Ecology at the University of Michigan on October 25, 2019.
Choreography, original text, and performance by Michael J. Morris
Elemental Rites at the End of the World was premiered on March 1, 2019, as part of Columbus Dance Alliance Works #2 at the Wexner Center for the Arts. It was also performed as part of the Southern Queer Magic exhibition at the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge on June 7, 2019, and again as part of Art in the Anthropocene: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Performance, Technology, and Ecology at the University of Michigan on October 25, 2019.
Choreography, original text, and performance by Michael J. Morris
