When we witness a violent act, a pain is felt through the body. “Two Doors,” a performance directed by SanSan Kwan, explores the viscerality of anti-Asian racism and the sovereignty that we wrest for ourselves in response. Dancers experiment with closings and openings, weight sharing and weight bearing, surveillance and care, playing with the kinetics of in/visibility, anticipated harm, redress, and repair.

Two Doors will premiere at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts at UC Davis on a split bill with Claudine Naganuma of dNaga Dance.

About the Artist:
SanSan Kwan is chair in the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley.  Performance: Lenora Lee Dance, Chingchi Yu, Chen and Dancers, Maura Nguyen Donohue, among others. SanSan will premiere her own work at the Mondavi Center at UC Davis in October 2024. SanSan is also a dance scholar. Books: Love Dances: Loss and Mourning in Intercultural Collaboration, Kinesthetic City: Dance and Movement in Chinese Urban Spaces. Articles: Dance Research Journal, TDR, Performance Research, and more.