Sitting With (2021) - Excerpt from ortega news Watch Video
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Description: Sitting/With is a dance with death. Two dancers and two chairs ruminate on culturally-specific death rituals, the stoicism that accompanies news of forthcoming death/a death that has already occurred, and forms of care that are birthed through the trauma of recognizing one’s mortality. Space and silence are not treated as empty, but instead, filled with the presence of memories, phantasmal visitors, tensions, and things we want to say but never will. The dancers embody these ideas through craf
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