The Axe is a performance of critical whiteness studies, radical genealogy, and ancestral recovery that dances a land acknowledgement for my body

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“Europeans slaughtered their healers and then exported their trauma” 
- Lyla June writing about the witch burnings

The Axe: a long line of broken white people dances with ancestors, invokes the forgotten, and animates deep time attempting to help heal wounds so old they have lost remembrance

Centered around the sacred tree of life Yggdrasil, this performance moves from the fairies to the folk to the fascists building a counter-narrative that combats both the horrors of white pride and the inaction of white guilt

Working through pagan ritual practices, ancestral folk dances, poetic anarchist chronicles, handmade ontological objects, and spells of queer improvisation, this performance is a land acknowledgement for my body as a white settler living on stolen land

Welcome to the messy positionality of complicity where conquered and conqueror, displaced and displacing, traumatized and traumatizing are carried together in an invisible backpack

Performance Description

Alley Wilde

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