a dance performance / a series of choreographies that address the issues of body representation in the era of capitalistic overproduction. “You have to create problems to create profit” – as it says in one of the pieces, alluding to the idea that a body has to be placed in a turbulent dramatic experience to be able to push the production-consumption machine.

alina’s longtime research in jazz dances enables her to put the “jazz body” in a radical reconceptualization of the cheerful “showtime” language she is twisting, empowered by the music by Duke Ellington, Ambrose Akinmusire and John Hollenbeck.