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Relief Dance

[…] Bakingspree described Relief Dance as, “A study on pain and actively overcoming it for strangers.” She continued, “it’s less of a performance than an invitation to watch performers’ self-care. […] Relief [Dance] is beautiful to me. Few of the performances I’ve watched have failed to move me to tears. I cry when I perform it. There’s just this exuding love coming from the audience, toward the performers, and each performer caring about themselves and about the audience, and they’re all making this thing that will only exist temporally — this conversation no one of us will ever have again — and by the end of it all that I feel is love.”

In another interview, Bakingspree stated, “It is such an emotive performance, every time. I mean, to watch them all standing there with the same sets of muscles, and organs, and nerves, and pains, and grey matter, and hearts prone to breaking — and to see them each respond to it in such a way that is entirely different from how I would have done — it is just such a succinct reminder of how minutely individual each one of us is. That’s Post-History, to me. An attempt to find a personal voice in the infinite sea of content, and at the outset to embrace the likelihood of eternal anonymity. […]

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