Reassemble treats apocalypse not as an ending but as an opening—an unraveling of extractive logics that makes space for reassembly. Ultimately, Reassemble imagines performance as a site for repair and reorientation—a choreography of survival enacted through attuning to capacities and attention. Reassemble continues my exploration of performance as a survival-centered practice-- an embodied rehearsal for living otherwise in the wake of systemic and ecological collapse.

Reassemble emerges from my embodied methodology and past choreographic project, Intimacy for the Apocalypse, which explored collaborative choreographic methods for developing emergent, co-constructed physical logics through gestural repetition. In Reassemble,

survival is not merely about cultivating individual strategies for persisting within existing systems. Rather, it becomes an exercise in communal resilience, centering bodies and their inter relational capacities to actualize queer, anti-capitalist futures—disassembling and reassembling available material and embodied resources to transform dominant logics and systems as they further unravel. This project challenges audiences to consider new ways of perceiving societal and individual crises, using live performance to construct new worlds out of collapse. Conceptually, the work develops what I call “apocalyptic intimacies”— gestures of tenderness and mutual dependence that arise amid collapse. Drawing from queer, feminist, and disability aesthetics, 

Reassemble positions the performance space as a fragile commons, a site where performers and viewers collectively navigate uncertainty and rebuild relation. 

Performers: Emily Barasch, Wesleigh Gates, Cora Laszlo, William Ruíz Morales

Original Sound Composition: Jesse Perlstein