“The Hunt” (2025) is a cyclical choreography instigated by two figures, who might be in-laws, nightlife personas or Delphic dancers. Their gestures conjure images of drudgery and pleasure, exploring the tension between the union - as collective self-making through labour - and the sacrifice of the body required for this to take place.
Frictionless and austere, spirited and scapegoated - with body and voice, the performers enact hunter/hunted on the edge of narrative constructions.
Its detailed yet improvised choreography celebrates the continuity of change, in a time of anti-trans animosity. Crossing time and genre, the performers highlight the ‘everywhere’ and ‘everything’ of trans- experience.
Inspired by the Labours of the Months*, and set against a backdrop of rising gender critical discourse, “The Hunt” stages dance as a place to elude the premise of one’s own subjecthood.
The work develops Morgan’s interest in the fictionality of the body and its potential for channelling lives at the periphery.
*Labours of the Months emerged in thirteenth-century calendars as small vignettes at the outer edges of manuscript pages. They depict romanticised seasonal cycles of collective actions attributed to rural labourers.
Credits:
Concept, choreography, text and sound by Billy Morgan
Performed by Tim Alan Brugger & Billy Morgan
Advised by Titus Nouwens
Photographed by Gergely Ofner
Filmed by Saskia Habermann
