Jennae Santos aka gushes: Delicious Collision I &
Ankita Sharma: dhoka/Betrayal/God Unspoken

Delicious Collision I is a multimedia choreographic song cycle to the first chapter of gushes' unreleased art rock album and new Filipinx mythology. Delicious Collision refers to a series of portals— psychedelic convergences of ancestral, elemental, queer, erotic, and warrior spirits whose dance maps pathways through birth and death cycles for unbound expressions of liberation. The primordial womb melts, an oyster splits, carnations burst, and a guitar smashes 2 portals open. Conjured from fisher folklore, climate erosion, drag, pro wrestling, Kali FMA, and the Indigenous Filipino concept of Kapwa, this immersive, allegorical ceremony beckons intimate within epic. 

Ankita Sharma: dhoka/Betrayal/God Unspoken
dhoka entangles Hindu goddess Kali’s ultimate power and destructive nature with present-day authoritarianism and religious violence, using myth to unpack how Hinduism has been shaped into propaganda for nationalism by Western influence. Tracing Kali’s deification, dhoka accompanies her transformation into a colonized, fetishized, destructive image that upholds violence with her bloodied tongue. The work lives at the fringes of reality and genre, letting the epic and human dance together: a physical exploration of how worship can distort what something stands for.