Performed at Artistic Dance Festival, 5/13/2023, East Longmeadow MA
Choreography by Garet Wierdsma
Performed by Kam DeAngelis, Tatyana Johnson, Julia Maranzano, Eveline Vergnani and Garet Wierdsma
Music by Soap&Skin
Piece Description: “everyday&everynight” is an attempt to understand cycles of abuse, generational trauma, and the ways that we as humans have been taught to be violent with ourselves and our own bodies since we were children. “everyday&everynight” explores the relationship of authority/guardian figure to child, and the twisted lessons that are taught when guardian figures have not ended a cycle of abuse within themselves. Cycles of abuse come in so many forms, including within oneself. Self hate, self harm, and an inability to care about oneself is often forged in lessons that we are taught by the actions of those we trust and admire. Self-hatred is a collective and cumulative disease, yet it is felt in isolation- kindred souls feel alien, only imaginable in dreams.