Choreography of State

Tania El Khoury invited six women choreographers from diverse practices around the world to create dance notations that analyze power structures and violence perpetrated by the state. This multimedia installation and performance approaches choreography as a counterforensic practice, exposing systems of militarized police training shaped by racialized surveillance, spatial exclusion, and the pacification of resistance. Taking cues from protests, the installation includes videos of movement scores of resistance to be activated by performers and embodied by the audience in a celebration of self-defense.

Featuring scores by luciana achugar, Rashida Bumbray, Emily Johnson, Nissa Nishikawa, Bhenji Ra, and Farah Saleh.

Performing Arts Lab, Studio D