“Topia” investigates the complexity of emotional response and conditioning by exploring core emotions of rage, fear, and love and mining the myriad manifestations of darkness–numbness, dissociation, depression, and mania.
Through a patchwork of shifting perspectives and embodied expression, each dancer reckons with their emotions and navigates relationships with others, pushing through pain, conflict, and ostracism to find vulnerability, empathy, and solace.