Parallax Drift is an experimental choreographic work that explores the shifting nature of perception, identity, and space through a queer phenomenological lens. Rooted in the body’s relationship to structure, sensation, and the unseen forces that shape our perceived orientation, the piece invites audiences into a world where movement becomes a portal – unfolding, refracting, and disrupting fixed points of view.
Drawing on inspiration from the concept of parallax – the apparent displacement of objects when seen from different angles – the work reveals directional scores, proximity-based structures, and spatial distortions. Dancers trace, resist, and drift through architectures of power, memory, and intimacy, revealing a body that is never singular but always in flux. The performance resists linear time and binary logic, insteading favoring multiplicity, reversal, and layering.
The piece is a continuation of my inquiry into queer embodiment, disorientation, and choreography as a philosophical practice. Collaborating with longtime movement partner Stephanie Terasaki, Parallax Drift builds on a shared emotional and physical dynamic that is both deeply intuitive and compositionally rigorous. We work through improvisation, sensation mapping, and somatic spatial awareness to craft a movement world that reflects our sense of aliveness, instability, and quiet rebellion.
In a moment where perception itself feels increasingly fractured—by media, politics, surveillance, and social crisis—Parallax Drift insists on the body as a site of both clarity and ambiguity. It offers a slow, embodied counterpoint to the speed and certainty demanded by dominant systems, inviting audiences into a space where shifting perspectives are not a threat, but a necessity.
This work matters now because it gives form to the queer, nonbinary experience of moving through a world that constantly misreads, repositions, and reorients the body. In a time of rising anti-trans and anti-queer legislation, the ability to explore nonconforming embodiment with nuance, softness, and complexity is radical. Parallax Drift does not demand visibility—it offers a space for disorientation, multiplicity, and drift as acts of survival and creation.
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