territory | Desert Hothouse

TERRITORY | Frankie Snowdon

territory is an immersive performance that exposes and calls into question the complicity, ignorance and subjugation of humans throughout history. In an effort to understand belonging, and using the body as a critical tool for interrogating complex questions, the work reckons with the concept of territory as something to be claimed and controlled.

Developed and performed by 3 dancers with distinct cultural, socio-political, embodied histories, the dance moves through states of creation, cognisance, occupation, defiance, reclamation and triumph.

By framing land as body, and bodies as countries, territory brings the decisions often made on our behalf by those in power into our personal control, asking us to reflect on the difficult truths that have shaped our world and how we might embolden ourselves and our communities to challenge these paradigms for a more hopeful future.