Convergence

CONVERGENCE a dance double bill

November 27th- 29th, 2025.
7:30PM and matinee 2PM on November 29th.
Mile Zero Dance
9931 78 Avenue NW

There will be a talkback with Convergence artists after the show on November 27th. Talkback facilitated by Lin Snelling

Good Women Dance Collective performs a new work, Blue Orbit, in collaboration with interdisciplinary artist, erψn temp3st. Surrounded by a landscape of objects, a surreal soundscape is emitted. We listen, we witness, and we move. Everything can be seen in this blue orbit, exposing the space and all its contents.

Choreographed by Molly McDermott, performed by Alida Kendell, Alison Kause and erψn temp3st, with dramaturgy by Lin Snelling.

Tia Ashley Kushniruk (亚 女弟) and Susannah Haight perform in a new work: “We’re working with the figure of the Virgin Mary as an entry point into exploring the “sacred feminine construct” and how female iconography in religious contexts has been used to define, restrict, and idealize women.

We’re interested in what happens when that image fractures, when she is pushed into spaces that are unruly, excessive, or even monstrous. We’re drawing from horror cinema, films like Possession (Dir: Andrzej Żuławski) and Titaine (Dir: Julia Ducournau) and body horror, as a way to destabilize these traditional narratives. I’m bringing my background in set design and tableau vivant, and Tia is bringing her Bouffon practice, so the work blends satire, distortion, and image-making in equal measure. 

We’re also looking to writers like Lauren Elkin and her book Art Monsters as a theoretical lens, thinking about how monstrosity can become a form of liberation. The work is about breaking open inherited images of the feminine, and imagining them as complex, unstable, and full of agency.”

-Tia and Susannah