upcoming events

Featuring Danse Perdue (Death Posture)

Fri. April 2 & Sat. April 3

Atrocity Exhibition: Prequel

Good Friday, April 2nd
teatro de la Psychomachia (theater of the soulstruggle)
1534 1st Avenue S. (one block south of Safeco, one block north of Showbox SoDo)

Saturday, Easter eve, April 3rd
Chapel performance space at the Good Shepherd
Sunnyside Ave. between 45/50th in Wallingford

both performances 8 p.m.

featuring Danse Perdue (Lost Dance)

Alex Ruhe, Vanessa Skantze, Kaoru Okumura, Angela Martinelli, Katrina Ellison, Lugh, Richard Woods, Katrina Wolfe, Ben

original sound created by celadon, cursed chimera, sataray

This performance is an initial foray into explorations based on original writing by Alex Ruhe and inspired by the nakedly empathetic witnessing of everyday violence by artists and writers such as our teacher Atsushi Takenouchi, founder of Jinen butoh; William T. Vollman, J.G. Ballard, Kathe Kollwitz and Francis Bacon (to name a few). We open ourselves to our own violence and desire for sacrifice and subjugation-- our bodies empathetic bridges dissolving into communion with atrocities long past and current. We explore the recurrence of the gods' hunger to become flesh and to offer it up in the multiple sacrifices of religion and war. Our vow to dance the forgotten and dispossessed creatures moves us toward this next offering.

for more information about upcoming events, or to plan an event with the Danse Perdue, please contact vanessa@deathposture.org