This Dance Theatre performance unfolds like a lucid dream inside a house of mirrors—where memory, myth, and impulse refract through the body in motion. I treat my body and its memories as the primary source of the work. Identity stays fluid, shaped by forces within and around me, constantly shifting and colliding.
Rather than performing to be seen, I live inside the work. Images rise from the subconscious as texture, color, rhythm, and symbol. I stretch pieces of identity across my skin, becoming visible through change. The choreography blurs reality and imagination, using speed, distortion, and space to pull you into a shifting sense of time and place. What emerges is a dream-dance of transformation and transmission.
I invite you in as a co-witness—into a tilted, dream-charged space shaped by memory, mystery, identity, and freedom. Here, questions slip into answers, the body leads, and becoming matters more than appearing, echoing the small, daily dances of being human—so vivid and compelling they begin and end within themselves.
An autobiography.
A spell. A spectacle.
My passage through alchemy.
An evening in the mirror.
A show not easily put into words, there’s just so much to gain from experiencing this artist and their work created. Meant to be discussed and shared
I don’t really have words to describe this act. It’s dance, it’s poetry, it’s singing. I appreciated the discussion at the end of show. You can tell Aspen and Addison put a lot of work into this. This show was very thought provoking.
I knew it was dance, but found it to be far more. Aspen put a lot into this performance which I didn’t expect to also include improv. Reached me in an unexpected way…that’s a good thing!
I really enjoyed this show and thought it was a great Fringe show. As others have said, it was strange and thought provoking, and I thought was a really beautiful choreopoem, which I feel I really see. It was a unique experience and very well executed. This show should be on your watch list, and these artists should be on your watch list for their future shows.
I have seen Refraction a couple of times, and it feels different each time. I love the music, the dance, and especially the discussion that follows the show. Each person sees the performance in a unique way, and I appreciate how those different perspectives can deepen and expand one another’s understanding of the work.
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