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Ultra Violets

“Queer’ not as being about who you’re having sex with ... but ‘queer’ as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it, and that has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live.”  – bell hooks​

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Through a physical exploration of the ways queer club culture, plant growth cycles, and sapphic intimacy intersect, ULTRA VIOLETS subverts our expectations of what queer becoming looks like, and depicts this process as cause for celebration. Set within a world that is part greenhouse, part underground dance club, this dance- theatre piece draws on the history of disco and plant life to propose a new perspective on what it means to grow into oneself.  

 

Transforming space and the body through innovative design, ULTRA VIOLETS invites audiences to celebrate what they've shaped in to. In witnessing this process, it imposes one question:

                do you want to dance?
 

Premiered November 2024, at re:Naissance Opera's IndieFest

Signals Studio, Vancouver

For touring, tech rider, or full archival inquires, email Alexandra through the "contact" tab. 

 

Runtime: 55 min, no intermission

Content Warnings: heavy use of haze & strobe lighting

 

Production Credits

Directed & Created by: Alexandra Caprara
Choreography & Performance by: Alexandra Caprara, Sydney Bluck, Anna Wang-Albini, Desiree Keresztes James, Charlotte Samuel, Aisha Wewala


**Additional Ensemble Performance by: Samantha Buss, Kira Radosevic, Samantha Walters, Cassandra Williams, Lauren Han, Sara Van Gaalen, Chantal Gering, Kelsi James, Sarah Finn, Natalia Martineau

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Production Team

Lighting, Video, & Set Design: Alexandra Caprara
Sound Design & Composition: Charlie Cooper
Costume Creation by: Anna Wang-Albini
Stage Management: Claire Brown

 

**This piece includes the participation of up to 12 additional dancers from the local queer community in whatever city ULTRA VIOLETS is presented in. These participants feature in select scenes of the work as added ensemble.
 

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©2024 by Alexandra Caprara

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