Dances Made to Order

Two strangers begin their days indulging their fantasy personas and make an unexpected connection.

Mom has a list of chores that Yonci doesn’t want to do. Mousse shows up for the work day, but Yonci doesn’t get anything done, so Mom has to take things to the next level.Dancing all over the Northside, Mom and Mousse are working hard all day while Yonci chills out. North Minneapolis is the stage for this journey through parenting, wrestling style. How is parenting like wrestling?

This dance film is about my relationship with my daughter through the lens of Senegalese wrestling.

Regression is about moving backward and returning to a previous place or state. This film presents a journey that searches for a way to break from this path.

Curated by Laurie Van Wieren of 9×22 Dance/Lab. The themes selected by the audience as the inspiration for the artists to use for this edition was: wabi sabi, left behind and real/false