Some About Love
“So in the midst of despair, I have come to believe that love—the feeling of love, the politics of love, the ethics and ideology and embodiment of love—is the only good option in this time of the apocalypse. What else do we have?” —Kai Cheng Thom, I hope we choose love
"Some About Love" is a dance solo, a research presentation, a collective writing and a zine about the theme of love. Intrigued by the fluctuation of our capacity for loving and receiving love, i dived into a number of readings about the conditions of loving under late capitalism and patriarchy, beyond the privatized romantic love, and in relation to power structures and community.
Starting with a grounding solo dance on a self-produced soundscape, i come out of the see-through cage and sit among the audience members to introduce my research. i share reading excerpts as well as my personal findings about when i see capacity for love expand, in its multiple forms: communal, interpersonal, spiritual and to oneself. i then invite the audience members to start an individual writing session oriented by different prompts every night.
Collecting the hand-written texts, i create a paper zine after the show which is shipped per post to everyone expressing the wish for it. In the following weeks i offer late-night readings through the phone of book excerpts about alternative loving and communal love.
The essential motivation for this work is to learn how to nurture and accomplish this ambition of a greater and more stable capacity for love: through service, spirituality, communal living or friendship. Ultimately studying feelings of belonging, trust and faith.
Choreography, scenography, dance and facilitation: Gala faraus
Soundscape, costume design, zine creation: Gala faraus
Seamstress: Laura Dubourjal
Advisors: Raoni Muzho-Saleh (NL) and Zinzi Buchanan (UK)
Music credits: interludes from “Miseducation” by Lauryn Hill (“Lost Ones”, “When it Hurts so Bad”, “Forgive Them Father”, “Every Ghetto, Every City”), “Looking Forward To Something, Dude” by Joseph Shabason, “Three” by Ellen Arkbo, “Epic Fail Sound Effects” and “Game Over Sound Effects” by YouTube
Captured by Nazar Rakhmanov and Nellie de Boers
"Some About Love" is a dance solo, a research presentation, a collective writing and a zine about the theme of love. Intrigued by the fluctuation of our capacity for loving and receiving love, i dived into a number of readings about the conditions of loving under late capitalism and patriarchy, beyond the privatized romantic love, and in relation to power structures and community.
Starting with a grounding solo dance on a self-produced soundscape, i come out of the see-through cage and sit among the audience members to introduce my research. i share reading excerpts as well as my personal findings about when i see capacity for love expand, in its multiple forms: communal, interpersonal, spiritual and to oneself. i then invite the audience members to start an individual writing session oriented by different prompts every night.
Collecting the hand-written texts, i create a paper zine after the show which is shipped per post to everyone expressing the wish for it. In the following weeks i offer late-night readings through the phone of book excerpts about alternative loving and communal love.
The essential motivation for this work is to learn how to nurture and accomplish this ambition of a greater and more stable capacity for love: through service, spirituality, communal living or friendship. Ultimately studying feelings of belonging, trust and faith.
Choreography, scenography, dance and facilitation: Gala faraus
Soundscape, costume design, zine creation: Gala faraus
Seamstress: Laura Dubourjal
Advisors: Raoni Muzho-Saleh (NL) and Zinzi Buchanan (UK)
Music credits: interludes from “Miseducation” by Lauryn Hill (“Lost Ones”, “When it Hurts so Bad”, “Forgive Them Father”, “Every Ghetto, Every City”), “Looking Forward To Something, Dude” by Joseph Shabason, “Three” by Ellen Arkbo, “Epic Fail Sound Effects” and “Game Over Sound Effects” by YouTube
Captured by Nazar Rakhmanov and Nellie de Boers
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