CIS MANIMAL: Choreographies of Undoing

CIS MANIMAL 1: Remembering

A first movement study in visibility, embodiment, and the soft undoing of inherited masculine posture. Filmed as a solitary encounter between body, camera, and forest, this piece begins the series’ inquiry into what a visibly cis male body may remember when it is no longer performing usefulness, certainty, or control. The work approaches movement as a form of listening: not toward mastery, but toward the return of sensation, vulnerability, and animal presence.

CIS MANIMAL 2: Lost Pleasures

Memories of profound tenderness and ecstatic union flood this refugee of reproductive society into a terminal heartbreak. Transformed through death he finds himself re-united with bare life.

CIS MANIMAL 3: The New Hatchet

Cisman remembering the rite of the hatchet he was given at 6, returns and begins to build again.