Disconnection

A dance performance, a live club set.

Disconnection as escape, euphoria, an inner need, and a response to the pressure of the surrounding world. A need for connection—through the body, music, dance, rituals. The individual and the group, the human and the environment. We search for our boundaries, together creating the space around us. Disconnection is both a personal and generational statement about the desire for freedom, about the line between escape, survival, and pure being.

“What will you do? Who do you want to be? What will become of you? What kind of person will you grow into? Do you already know how you’ll make a living? Will you start a family? And where will you live?”

Are you still surprised that someone might need to disconnect? These and many other questions. Everyone asks them. And they mean well. They really do want to help. After all, they had to go through it too! But at least for a moment—not to hear, not to have to answer, not to have to know the answers. Because you’re only fourteen, or fifteen, sixteen, seventeen…