A ritual of femme power and connection rooted in two decades of research and participation in street and contemporary dance cultures.
Again, There Is No Other (The Remix) is a dark and joyful ritual merging street dance forms and contemporary dance. The work interrogates fear of the Feminine in patriarchal culture, asking: If perceptions of race and gender are inseparable, can we be a post-gender society when we are far from a post-race society?
Through hybridizing the nightclub, the cypher (the circle), and the theater, five physically multilingual, femme-identified dancers explore touch, support, the imperative of connection, the tensions of identity, and the embrace of difference.
Photo Credit: Erin O’Reilly
About the Artist
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Amy O’Neal | Concept, Direction, Choreography
Annie Franklin, Nia-Amina Minor, Amy O’Neal, BGirl Rascal Randi, Tracey Wong | Performance and Movement Collaborators
Ardyn Flynt, Satori Folkes-Stone, Amaria Stern | Past Movement Contributors
Amiya Brown | Lighting Design
Meena Murugesan | Projection Design
Wazhma Samizay | Styling
WD4D, Juliet Mendoza | Music Composition and Production
Juliet Mendoza | Live DJ
“Again, There Is No Other (The Remix)” is a National Performance Network Creation and Development Fund Project co-commissioned by On the Boards in partnership with the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA.
This project was supported through creative residencies at:
The Kennedy Center/The Reach for an Office Hours/Social Impact Residency (DC)
BASE Experimental Arts + Space (Seattle)
Body.Space.Time at the Dance Department of the University of Washington (Seattle)
On the Boards (Seattle)
The Nemoy/CAP UCLA (Los Angeles).
This project has also been incubated by Hybrid Dance Lab since 2019.
Honorary producer for the On the Boards presentation: John C. Robinson.
