lumenbodies (Akane & Benja)

Akane Little is a Brooklyn-based dance artist approaching the body and performance as an altar-portal for transmuting energy and channeling worlds. They have performed with LEIMAY since 2023 and featured in works by Aeon Andreas, Sam Smith, and Chaesong Kim. They recently performed for Triskelion Arts’ Split Bill and will premiere work as part of The Brick’s Exponential Festival.

A practicing queer archivist, Benja Thompson interweaves historical truths with radical imagination. Their filmwork has shown in microcinemas across the country, including Other Cinema, Anthology Film Archives, and The Film-makers’ Coop, as well as performed at CAVE, The Tank, and Dixon Place.

(softspells) is a ritual space unfolding from the flesh of two trans lovers’ embodied and visual experiences of domesticity. Inspired by Carolee Schneeman’s Fuses, the bodies invoke Sapphic lineages while weaving together movement rituals, improvisational scores, and projected images of falling fabrics, intimacies of the flesh, and looks from cats.

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