What can we do together that we cannot do alone? This dance duet is a queer reimagination of a creation story. With patience, tenderness and prayer we epitomize the multiple ways that love can manifest. Intimacy facilitates straddling and queering notions of violence, care, pleasure, play and gender. Through performance we cultivate impossible conditions as an invitation to elusive spaces where desire, guilt, grief and love intersect. We hold the complexity and paradox of being socialized female bodies who are queer and racialized. Sometimes we share a body and sometimes we splinter into the ether — we simultaneously elevate each other and take each other down. What becomes possible when love is stronger than fear? We embody the wildest dreams of our queer ancestors.

Makisig Akin (they/them) is a queer, transgender Filipino born choreographer, dance artist, facilitator, and activist. They were raised in the Philippines and are currently based in Berlin. Akin’s work focuses on the recognition of intersectional identities, reconnecting with their ancestry and decentralizing western ideologies in dance making.
makisigakin.com

Anya Cloud (she/they) is originally from Alaska and currently based between Colorado and Berlin. As a queer, female, white person they orient their work to cultivate radical aliveness as an artist-activist practice; collaboration is central. Since 2023 Cloud co-directs The Love Makers Company with Makisig Akin.

stevie gunter (all/none) is an afropresentist, musician/dj and archivist. stevie has a bachelor’s degree in Sociology, a master’s degree in Library Science and for more than a decade, been self/community taught across the mediums of sound and skin.

[Source: sophiensaele.com]

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