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featuring my lover and nemesis (The Snake Roll)
Videography and Edit: @yarajulesfares_
(trying to get back into the social media hellscape #coginthewheel
#pleasesendhelp #icanonlydosomuchsocialmedia
#cryingatmylaptop #aerialhoop #circus
'Desire Kills Desire', as performed for Summerhall Arts Surgeries 🍒🌸🍓
A violent and sensual dance-film solo, 'Desire Kills Desire' interrogates the relationship between live and pre-recorded bodies in a volatile re-imagining of consumption. As desire, power, and self-destruction collapse into each other, we question the active and passive...what consumes who?
With thanks to:
@summerhallarts - for the invitation to perform, and warm welcome
@theimogenstirling - on the day support
@jenny_props - synthetic skin
Matt Norris / Summerhall - photography
Brian Hutchison - tech support
clip from 'Grammy Needs Her Hanky'
October Open Rig 2025 @aerial_edge
inspired by the hanky i keep forgetting to return to @2222.alex 💗<3🌷
p.s. Chinese Pole is a very new discipline for me - enjoy the clunkiness and awkwardness 🛸
passive vs active ... can I simultaneously be victim and perpetrator? external vs internal modes of consumption🦶👅
Time and space to develop ‘Desire Kills Desire’ has been provided through The Work Room’s Artist Residency Programme. Thank you to Anita, Laura, Moira, and Sara for welcoming me into the studio, and making me feel right at home!
A huge thank you to Jenny Fleming for crafting the sheet of latex skin - it is grotesque, veiny, pubey, and has been a joy to stretch and wobble and quiver.
anddd thank you to anyone who popped into the studio, came to the sharing, or morning classes <33
Prop Maker @jenny_props
Residency through @the_work_room_dance
playing with projection for 'Desire Kills Desire'
current thoughts: the IRL body, consumed by the virtual body 🫀🥵👹
Thank you @danceeast for your in-kind support, Makerspace is always a fun time for experimentation
