What if “the body” is an error? The GIF Ballets exhibits dancers as material and immaterial voyagers in a liminal, disorderly, space: a house projected onto with life size moving imagery, where bodies are scene and seen. It is a house of dance practice.

At once referencing and resignifying dance training, dancers in the house struggle to keep their movements orderly, conventional. But a queerness seeps through. They become exhausted, or hyperactive, out of time and place. Their movement exceeds the forms they refine, their movements become sticky, flowing, and sharp, in odd combinations. On the walls of the house are constellations of the same dancers projected. In fits and starts, the dancers in the house, begin to coordinate with their doubles creating a queer ballet, part virtual, entirely real.

Commenting on our social media era where dancers translate their movement practices to the virtual at a daily, exhaustive pace, The GIF Ballets is a mediation on where the bodies of dancers goes from this point. The work provokes a simple question: how will dancers survive a gaze that wishes them to be there, like the internet, moving all the time, and available on demand?