Space Carcasses is a dance-based, interdisciplinary performance I conceived and direct to explore how built environments imprint themselves on the body\u2014how architectures become skins we\u2019ve shed, yet still carry. Using emergent technologies, I\u2019m constructing a virtual composite of three geographically and historically linked sites\u2014Savannah, Georgia; R\u00e9union Island; and Northern Nigeria\u2014each a node in the transatlantic slave trade.<\/p>\n
Through 3D scans, audiovisual residue, and movement scores developed on-site, I animate these \u201cspace carcasses\u201d with the dancing body, drawing from an Africanist worldview where time is circular, identity is spiritual, and dance is a primary technology of access to ancestry and communal memory.<\/p>\n
The body, in this work, extends into space as exoskeleton, as container\u2014dancing with, through, and against the architecture it once endured. Projections, spatial audio, and live performance will interface in real time, forming a ritualized re-memory of place.<\/p>\n
Space Carcasses is not only an inquiry into somatic histories but a process of re-contextualization\u2014a way to assert presence, power, and transformation through the enduring vitality of movement.<\/p>","excerpt":"","slug":"empac-work-in-progress-space-carcasses","image":false,"all_day":false,"start_date":"2024-04-23 19:00:00","start_date_details":{"year":"2024","month":"04","day":"23","hour":"19","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"end_date":"2024-04-23 21:00:00","end_date_details":{"year":"2024","month":"04","day":"23","hour":"21","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"utc_start_date":"2024-04-23 19:00:00","utc_start_date_details":{"year":"2024","month":"04","day":"23","hour":"19","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"utc_end_date":"2024-04-23 21:00:00","utc_end_date_details":{"year":"2024","month":"04","day":"23","hour":"21","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"timezone":"UTC+0","timezone_abbr":"UTC+0","cost":"","cost_details":{"currency_symbol":"$","currency_code":"USD","currency_position":"prefix","values":[]},"website":"https:\/\/empac.rpi.edu\/events\/2024\/space-carcasses-wip","show_map":false,"show_map_link":false,"hide_from_listings":false,"sticky":false,"featured":false,"categories":[],"tags":[],"venue":{"id":469,"author":"1","status":"publish","date":"2025-04-11 16:36:52","date_utc":"0000-00-00 00:00:00","modified":"2025-04-11 16:36:52","modified_utc":"0000-00-00 00:00:00","url":"https:\/\/ozuzudances.com\/index.php\/venue\/studio-1-goodman\/","venue":"Studio 1–Goodman","slug":"studio-1-goodman","address":"110 8th Street Troy","city":"New York","country":"United States","state":"NY","zip":"12180","stateprovince":"NY","json_ld":{"@type":"Place","name":"Studio 1–Goodman","description":"","url":"","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","streetAddress":"110 8th Street Troy","addressLocality":"New York","addressRegion":"NY","postalCode":"12180","addressCountry":"United States"},"telephone":"","sameAs":""},"show_map":false,"show_map_link":false,"global_id":"ozuzudances.com?id=469","global_id_lineage":["ozuzudances.com?id=469"]},"organizer":[{"id":472,"author":"1","status":"publish","date":"2025-04-11 16:37:12","date_utc":"0000-00-00 00:00:00","modified":"2025-04-11 16:37:12","modified_utc":"0000-00-00 00:00:00","url":"https:\/\/ozuzudances.com\/index.php\/organizer\/empac\/","organizer":"EMPAC","slug":"empac","website":"https:\/\/empac.rpi.edu\/","json_ld":{"@type":"Person","name":"EMPAC","description":"","url":"https:\/\/empac.rpi.edu\/","telephone":"","email":"","sameAs":"https:\/\/empac.rpi.edu\/"},"global_id":"ozuzudances.com?id=472","global_id_lineage":["ozuzudances.com?id=472"]}],"custom_fields":[],"json_ld":{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Event","name":"EMPAC Work in Progress: Space Carcasses","description":"<p>Space Carcasses is a dance-based, interdisciplinary performance I conceived and direct to explore how built environments imprint themselves on the body\u2014how architectures become skins we\u2019ve shed, yet still carry. Using […]<\/p>\\n","url":"https:\/\/ozuzudances.com\/index.php\/event\/empac-work-in-progress-space-carcasses\/","eventAttendanceMode":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OfflineEventAttendanceMode","eventStatus":"https:\/\/schema.org\/EventScheduled","startDate":"2024-04-23T19:00:00+00:00","endDate":"2024-04-23T21:00:00+00:00","location":{"@type":"Place","name":"Studio 1–Goodman","description":"","url":"","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","streetAddress":"110 8th Street Troy","addressLocality":"New York","addressRegion":"NY","postalCode":"12180","addressCountry":"United States"},"telephone":"","sameAs":""},"organizer":{"@type":"Person","name":"EMPAC","description":"","url":"https:\/\/empac.rpi.edu\/","telephone":"","email":"","sameAs":"https:\/\/empac.rpi.edu\/"},"performer":"Organization"}}