all the things we'll never be
all the things we’ll never be is a work that explores femininity, femmephobia, and the collective safety that queer women seek in one another as a means of solace for the grief that we feel as artists, as queer folks, as people of colour, as womxn, as people who believe in equity and justice.
Premiered: Dec 7, 2018, SAFEhouse Arts
Premiered as part of SAFEhouse Arts Resident Artist Workshop and Lead Artist Program
Collaborators:
Choreographer:
Bhumi B. Patel
Original Cast:
Chelsea Boyd Brown, KJ Dahlaw, Danielle Galvez, Katherine House, Peri Trono, and Jordan Wanderer
Sound:
Chihei Hatakeyama, Julia Kent, Alberto Iglesias, Alan Ellis, Stars of the Lid, Max Richter, Café Accordian Orchestra, Benedictine Nuns Choir of l’Abbaye de Nortre Dame, Monks of Ampleforth Abbey, Leon Bridges, Bersarian Quartett
Lighting Design:
Colin Johnson
Costumes:
Bhumi B. Patel
all the things we'll never be is a fully immersive, meditation on the versions of ourselves that we’ll never be and will examine the choices we’ve made to honor the expectations set forth for us, either internally or externally. Patel states, “As a queer, woman of colour, I have been marked enough – different, an outlier, unworthy, less than. And this work makes a different mark, one that heals and welcomes in.”
Funding:
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Zellerbach Family Foundation
all the things we'll never be | 2018
"I bear witness to systematic inequity and oppression within the intersections of the dance and queer communities. I am compelled to make this piece right now because femmes need to be heard."
- Bhumi Patel, on all the things we'll never be
