SWITCH: Post-Failure Potentials | Makisig Akin + Anya Cloud

This piece is deeply visceral and experimental as it dares to reimagine failure as a beginning, revealing bold new possibilities for queer futures, radical resilience, and collective transformation. The politics of values, identities, and collective bonds are central. Performers engage in high-stakes and high-risk contexts as the audience is invited into active spectatorship reminiscent of an Olympic event or Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu match. Informed by Jack Halberstam’s The Queer Art of Failure, martial arts, improvisation, and contemporary dance, the work subverts binaries as it spokes into the power, politics, and intimacy of post-failure potential.