States of Collapse

The evening brings together two new works created in close collaboration with the same ensemble, presenting contrasting yet interconnected perspectives.

Too Busy Too Burn, choreographed by Laura DeAngelis, explores burnout as a self-destructive cycle driven by productivity, repetition, and external validation. Through an installation-based performance, the dancers exhaust themselves trying to destroy a structure with a lighter that has run out of fuel. Trapped in futile labor, while lightness and gentleness remain out of reach. The work reflects on exhaustion in late capitalism and the erosion of self-worth through overdetermination.

Banquete Caribe, by Venezuelan choreographer Naia Urresti, offers a counter-perspective rooted in Latin American thought and embodied ritual. Inspired by the writings of Alejo Carpentier and Oswald de Andrade, the piece explores chaos as a source of vitality rather than decay. Through movement, rhythm, and collective presence, the performers embody instability as a creative force—in places where identities intersect, structures dissolve, and new forms emerge. The body becomes a territory of resistance, contradiction, and revelation. Together, the two works form a one-hour program that moves from exhaustion to regeneration, from collapse as exhaustion to collapse as rebirth. States of Collapse invites the audience to reflect on how bodies react when systems fail—and what new possibilities arise in their aftermath.