is a site -specific performance researching into power, grief, repetition, and renewal. The body and its presence become a site of rage. A passage from mere existence to the profound depths of hope.
Inspired by Byung-Chul Han, this work refuses the emptiness and fatalism of a narcissistic society. Instead, it pursues a kind of hope that fully acknowledges negativity and suffering, a hope that must be actively unearthed, wrested from despair, and claimed as a task and a call for survival.
Concept, Choreography, Direction: Gema Galiana.

Performed at Mark S. Taper Courtyard - CalArts Nov 13-14 2025.
This work has been created in collaboration with the performers, with their own creativity and presence serving as an essential source of movement and inspiration.

My gratitude for their commitment and generosity:
Gabriel J. Montes @gabrieljmontes
Lu Arróspide @lu_arrospide
Jessica Hemingway @germanhemingway
Rio Rasch/Anthony Nikolchev @riorasch / @anthonynikolchev
Darrin Fleenor @jaylon_.x
Noah Allen
Maria Jurado @mariaa.jurado
Sage Sanchez @sagesanchezz
Arno Kristensen @arno.kristensen LIVE MUSIC by the brilliant Sylvia Celes @passage.girl Set design: Abril Jiang
Costume consultant: Shirley Jing

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