World Premiere: Battery Dance Festival - New York City
The Dream
Earth is the geolocation of our minds. A butterfly illusion of what we want and yearn for. The trance is our existence, the constant flow of infinite gold light and spiralling energy, travelling 360 degrees both internally, and externally around us.
The nostalgia is our bodies, the instrument of our collective trance. It plays, recalls, and evokes the 3D sensations of memories, and the physical flow of remembrance in our minds. We are the physical and metaphysical existence of the mind on earth. Exotic winged creatures in a constant state of the chrysalis. We are from the before and after time. Being in the trance of nostalgia and its memories, we fall into a pocket of time and space. All is felt absolutely lost with a blinded sense of reminiscence and remembrance.
We carry and hold every soul’s energies and the memories of earth in our external wings. Variations of events play through our bodies as we channel infinite frequencies and scales of one another. Working through each event filled with a kaleidoscope of emotions, healing and transforming every soul into the realms of light and love; holding the dream of a day when each one will be able to awake, remember, and enter alternate dimensions seamlessly.
The Reality
Nostalgic Beings of Synaesthesia is a visual representation of the persistent feelings of remembering and forgetting by humans on earth; the diversity of each individual’s experience of reality, and the various expressions of the human brain and mind. The piece offers a glimpse into the inner world of a dancer with synaesthesia, which acts as a portal into accessing other realms of consciousness, and memories.
Through the embodied experience of the merging of his and her senses and expanded experience of reality; they are working to remember their wisdom. What if every mind on earth was in a constant state of creating its own reality? What if each mind is valid & beautiful and was put here for a reason? How can movement tap into these intimate landscapes and express itself through the idiosyncratic and distinctive movement of the dancers?
As a choreographer, I am taking the experience of synesthesia and attempting to bring my viewers into a world of memories, and other realms of existence, and giving them a glimpse into the full sensory experience of synaesthesia. The trance is set in motion through the compilation of numerous instrumental sounds, rhythms, beats, tempos, and patterns, evoking and moving the audience to go deeper into self.
Artists: Rakeem Hardy, Zachary Seto, Mateo Vidals
Image Credit: Mark Mercado
