faith hole (2019)
Solo performance - 100-300 spectators - 60 mins
I go into the Matrix to mourn my inherited dreams. They were a technology of control over my body. This wake is a dance.
No self-image. I lean into forwardness, revel in aloneness.
Shameless, I entrust this dance to my flesh, its taste and its skill on its own terms. And so I trash success. No winning, no losing. No control. We enter the hole.
Queer joy as resistance
Failure as a strategy for overcoming
Fear as vitality, facing the whole Earth organism
Created through radical trust in the body, faith hole choreographs itself through the unconsidered movements that rip through the artist. Going relentlessly forward, always embracing its future iteration, dismissing nostalgic lingerings of “self”, yet exposing the splinters of personhood to the public. In this solo work, Nate Yaffe cultivates a non-transactional exchange between performer and audience, offering himself as an open orifice spilling fleshy histories with unguarded emotion. By excavating muscle memories as artifacts from a history of conditioning through classical dance training, internalized hetero-masculine values, and restrained hyperactivity, Nate Yaffe strives to reveal the innately queer vocabulary that lives beneath.
Created with the support of Studio 303, MAI, CCOV, Studio Par B.L.eux, Mile Zero Dance, Usine C - 3rd floor projects
Premiere 2019 - Montreal, arts interculturels (MAI)
2022 OFFTA, Usine C
2022 Performance Mix Festival, NYC
