Dead Ends by Political Movement

Dead Ends is a choreographic meditation on depletion, identity, and repair. Emerging from the experience of giving so much of oneself that little remains recognizable, the work inhabits the emotional terrain of exhaustion and disconnection. Through vulnerability, repetition, and release, the piece traces a passage toward reconciliation with the self; revealing healing not as resolution, but as the possibility of renewed growth.

run time: 10 minutes

Creative Team 1
choreographer, performer: Aria Evans
dramaturgy: Dedra McDermott
producer: Tara Butler
lighting designer, stage manager: Sharon DiGenova
music:

Komiku - A tale about somewhere, where the end of the story already occurs
File Under Toner - orgy
Komiku - The end
TRG Banks - Daybreak in a new town
HoliznaCC0 - The End

note: The idea for Dead Ends has been adapted from explorations with The Mermaid Project facilitated by Ximena Huizi.

​Performances
Registry Theatre, Kitchener Ontario
June 2023

Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
August 2023

Art Holm No. 9, Winnipeg
November 2024