About Future Daughter

Brussels, Belgium

'Future Daughter' is an immersive dance performance set in a multi-temporal femur bone. This project is in response to the call by Zimbabwean dance artist Nora Chipaumire “to listen to one's bones in order to hear the dances and rhythms of ancestors."

My interest is to open up this bone-y potential, as a sort of bridge which while extending backwards could also project forwards as we inevitably become the ancestors in the bones of our future kin.

If there are ancestors living in our bones, surely we are living in the futures bones as well! The research at stake is therefore a speculation through dance on an ecological consciousness and what we leave for the future. If we are but an extension of echoes dancing what do our echoes offer forwards? Or as Federico Campagna asks in Prophetic Culture, what are the aesthetics that a future kin audience could use to build their worlds with? And, inspired by Jose Muñoz, what is the place of utopia in the way we imagine the future and how can we lay a foundation for that future to access it? 

This project is about remembering what has been lost, what has been extracted, what has been displaced, and rematriating the dances with these ancestral echoes. Through this process of feeling with the past, my goal is that we can recognize ourselves as a past belonging to a future that we owe something beautiful to. They feel our actions, they inherit our responsibilities, our choices, our mistakes, and our triumphs. 

While Future Daughter can not tell what to do, it can give us a way to feel these relationships, a basis for recognizing ourselves differently as we navigate our personal, political, and communal lives.