Tabea Antonacci and Marie Elise Hufnagel explore how movement can interpret and interact with Hirt’s paintings and themes, as well as with the audience. Their deeply researched collaborative venture resulted in a gripping improvisational dance piece, translating complex emotions and histories into powerful movements that suggest that if trauma is embodied and passed along in the body, why wouldn’t resistance and resilience be as well?

With the performers adorned in body suits painted by Hirt, seemingly moving in and out of the large murals she created for the occasion, this collaboration dissolves the boundaries between dimensions. It dismantles the conventional barriers between artist, performer, and audience in an immersive call to engage with our own “embodied legacies.”