Future Daughter
A dance performance by Nathaniel Moore
About Future Daughter
'Future Daughter' is an immersive dance performance, where movement creates bridges between ancestors, ourselves, and the future we give shape to.
Urgency:
How might we perceive our actions as echoes, that we both receive and send forth to the world ahead of us? And how might the perception of these relationships be a key to our health, our heart, our politics, our spirit, and our hope?
What does it look like?
You walk onto a stage. The space is completely white. Bone like sculptures are laying on the floor, hung from the ceiling, and create bridge-like architectures all around the space. You sit on these bones and watch a dance duet happening in front of and around you. This dance is a series of echoes, of reactions, of layered lives and times corresponding and speaking to each other.
Team
Calendar
Previous:
January 2025- Residency WpZimmer
May 2025- Residency Needcompany
June 2025- Work in progress showing at NtGent
Upcoming:
September 25-January 26: Research, building dance materials, and making the finished blueprints for set design, costume, and music.
February 2026: Work in progress showing in Brussels, with support of the artist-Commons and Wpzimmer, at VOLTA.
March 15th: Apply for Flemish subsidies for 2026-2027
September 2026-April 2027: Rehearsals in preparation for premier. Technical rehearsals, Building up of set, incorporation of lighting design.
May or June 2027: Belgian Premier.
Why Dance?
Dance is a shapeshifting echo of embodiments that travels through time. It is an event which holds shared emotions, feelings, and abstract situations. Dance is opaque, and this opacity allows for many different people to project themselves, their meanings, and their needs into it. Dance is a place where we can feel together, and importantly, imagine together. It is a shifting sand box in front of your eyes, which unlike a movie or a play, does not offer a definitive narrative, but is malleable and expands with each subjective interpretation. Dance gives you a shape for you to feel your own meaning through. Dance is a community practice, in that it comes to significance through the act of feeling each other, projecting, and imagining together.
Dance is also an activity that I love. In dance I both feel fully myself and fully impersonal, as I melt into what is shared. Dance teaches us that what we feel and experience is all relational. Movements come from somewhere and go someplace else, whether it be a physical movement, emotions moving, or thoughts moving. The bodies we have are portals of experience for movements to happen through. Movement helps us to sense ourselves in physical space and as subjects in the world. If we could not feel we could not move. For example, it's impos sible to walk without the feet and legs feeling the ground. There would be no movement without sensing, and inversely there would be no sensing without movement. Touch and change are the basis of both sensing and movement. To be a body experiencing change, to be in the vulnerability of liveness, for me, might be a sort of ontology of dance.
In performance it's my responsibility as a dance artist to put that in a context, in a situation, for us to understand and open the world we are in and the relationships we are a part of here.