For subpolyversadiscoteca I knew I wanted audience and performers to share the same space. I knew I wanted there to be no front, so that chairs faced multiple directions and that every audience member would have a different experience of the work. I knew I wanted audience members to be separated from the people they came to the theater with, so that there was a focus on their own individual experience with each performer. I knew that I wanted the work to be less about my own movement aesthetic, and more about how I could arrange the movement choices of the performers into something coherent but queerly multiplicitous.

Credits

Conceived and Directed by Levi Gonzalez
Choreographed by Levi Gonzalez in collaboration with the performers
Performed by Levi Gonzalez, Pearl Marill, Kristianne Salcines, Sam Wentz and devika wickremesinghe
Lighting Design by Arsenio Apillanes
Costume Consulting by Pearl Marill
Sound Design by Mark A. Goebel
Original Music by Michael Floyd
Additional Music: “Feel Up” by Grace Jones (Danny Tenaglia remix)

Production History

Premiere: April 19, 2019
Glorya Kaufman Dance Theater at University of California Los Angeles
All photos by Charles Han

Support provided by UCLA’s Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance