luna beller-tadiar
[address]
Who must you be to be the “you” that I address? Inflected by global Philippine labor and queer world-making practices, [address] is a work in progress that thinks about the labor of a malleable body, on and off-line, and across gendered forms, as it is interpellated by others and interpellates in turn.
Choreographer: Luna Beller-Tadiar
Dancers: Luna Beller-Tadiar, Amanda Black
Music: mixed sound with music by Carmilla (“Pieces”); Liv k. (“Warehouse rave,” DJ mix) ; DM R (“talks to the moon, talks to the beach, has no fortune”); and Tigray Hamasyan (“Fides Tua”); Pantyo (“Bronsé”)
Design (Projection, Make-up, Costumes, Lighting Direction): Luna Beller-Tadiar
Lights: Erin Bell
Performed on April 14 and 15 at the Rubenstein Arts center, Duke University, Durham
study for a copy
(code surfing)
*Selected for Future Dance Festival at the 92nd st Y (2023) by Martha Graham's Janet Eliber*
study for a copy (code surfing) is an investigation of mimicry and the malleable body. What does it mean to occupy that colonial figure of the (mere) mimic, obliged to embody infinite forms, yet accused of being fickle and derivative? At once a colonial inheritance for a child of the imperial USA’s “little brown brother,” the Philippines, mimicry is here an ambivalent method for an available body, walking the line between dominated and dominator, identity and void, feeling and its semblance, subject and substrate.
Performance, Choreography, Projection, Makeup, Costume: Luna Beller-Tadiar
Lights: Jennifer Sherrod
Music: Mixed sound by Luna Beller-Tadiar, with music samples from Susie Ibarra and Robert J. Rodriguez; the Cordillera Youth Theater Group and Alex Madullawan Tumapang; Brittany Greene; Liv K.; Erik Satie interpreted by Michel Camilo and Tomatito; Tismé; and Big Rulez.
Performed at the Page Theater at Duke University, November 18 2022
Platform (Processing) #2
Platform is a work-in-process by Luna Beller-Tadiar that investigates the body as plugged into the circulation of cultural forms. Drawing on gendered and technological gesture, platform takes a single body, even in isolation, as a site of ongoing citation, eruption, and negotiation with an always-present social world.
Choreography, video, sound, dance - Luna Beller-Tadiar
(Samples of Isaac Hayes, Frankie Knuckles, and Flako)
Lights - James Clotfelter Performed at the Von der Hayden Theater, Duke University, April 8 and 9, 2022
Platform (Processing)
Platform is a multimedia performance work-in-process by Luna Beller-Tadiar, with excerpts of music by composer Brittany Green. The work thinks about the body as a support for digital, affective, and cultural flows. It investigates a body plugged into digital modes of speaking, to gender and sexuality, and also one traversed by past practices and emplacements. Platform takes a single body, even in isolation, as a site of ongoing citation, eruption, and negotiation with an always-present social world.
Choreography, video, performance: Luna Beller-Tadiar
Music: samples of pieces by Brittany Green
Performed at the Reynolds Theater at Duke University on Nov. 19, 2021
Transmissions
thinks about bodies as media, vessels through which flows an always overdetermined movement “speech” and “grammar,” but also about bodies as sites of disruption, places where that movement mutates, taking different form for a different body, situation, or desire...
Performed at the Cresent Theater, Yale University, Spring 2018
