WISH | BODY | TRACE

Choreographed by Sam Aros-Mitchell

Performed by Chloe Jung, Lina Morhai, Tvesha Gupta, Lem Nguyen, Erin Soko, Kathryn Hocker, Timaa Kamar

Lighting design by Rembrandt Pieplenbosch

Sound design by Belu-Olisa Sarkissian

Costume design by Lia Wallfish

Erin Soko and Kathryn Hocker, Dance Captains 

Sound and Technology Dramaturgy by Raymond Simmonds

Wish | Body | Trace emerges from my practice of performance as ceremony, where attention is held as a shared ritual. Developed with physicist Ray Simmonds, the work explores how repetition, relation, and time shape the body. It resists literal explanation and narrative illustration, grounding movement in listening, presence, and encounter. Forms organize and loosen as bodies move through orientation, structure, and displacement. The piece asks performers and audience to remain present rather than interpret—to experience what unfolds without needing it explained, resolved, or translated into meaning, and to stay with the experience as it continues to shift over time together. – Sam Aros-Mitchell