Past event — This event ended 14 days ago.
In the Belly of the Beetle
About the event
Join Leah Danze and collaborators Aída Reyes, Hamidreza Fallahi, Plumegirl, and Terri Mash for a performance exploring the unruly vitality of insects and the ways they inhabit and invade human designs. Performances will take place at 7:30 and 9, as musicians and dancers respond to Danze’s painted images—and with one another. “In the Belly of the Beetle” asks us to take insects’ ways of living seriously—they burrow, wait, multiply, and slip around what is meant to keep them out. In Danze’s painted world, human and more-than-human bodies tangle together as bellies, dirt, wings, mouths—a tender kind of decomposition, where it is not always clear whether a body is being devoured or held. Here, survival is less about remaining intact than continuing in another form. This event is free and open to the public. Guests are welcome to bring pillows for seating. This project is supported in part by an Elevate Grant of Austin Arts, Culture, Music and Entertainment. To view Leah Danze’s exhibition outside of performance hours, you are welcome to visit the gallery on Saturday, August 29 and Saturday, September 5 from 10 AM - 3 PM.
