Inspired by science fiction author, Octavia Butler’s works, Histories, is a near future dystopia. In response to climate catastrophe and the current administration’s new arms race of nuclear armament, this work explores animagined post-apocalyptic realm, but one that is not without hope. This work is based on an imagined but not impossible reality. A box city of lost resources becomes a promise for a new generation. Part surrealism, part near-future, part auto-ethnography, the dancers unite their disparate histories to find hope and possibility in a dystopic world. 

Histories for an Apocalypse

Choreography: Maria Gillespie
Performance: Amanda Laabs, Gina Laurenzi, Rosa Mahon, Tisiphani Mayfield, Ariana Northway, Haley Moore, Annie Peterson, Maddie Prokop

Winterdances: Transit
Artistic Direction: Simone Ferro
Feb. 1-4, 2018