TEETH
Premiered April 2-4, 2026 at FROLIC! at Dance Mission Theater, SF
In a stark, dimly-lit dystopia where flesh deviates and identities fracture, TEETH plunges into the shadows where trans bodies become monstrous, not as objects of horror, but as sites of radical imagination and necessary adaptation. BODYSTORM’s contemporary dance nightmare/solo with jose e abad’s haunting soundscore creates a gender apocalypse that bites back against the looming threat of our extinction and holds up a mirror to reveal the dangerous beauty of our interconnected monstrosities. The work is the second part in a series exploring the trans body as a force of nature. Beginning with OBSESSED (2025) and ending with HAUNT (2027), TEETH exists in a wasteland on its own or as a mutant growth in the middle of a living, morphing triptych.
Sound Design: jose e. abad, in collaboration with B Dean, with contributions from Quinn Dior and Nol Simonse
Costumes: B Dean and Krystal Harfert
Presented by Queering Dance Festival
Photos by Robbie Sweeney
“Not a piece I would choose to revisit, but one that will stick with me whether I like it or not.”
-Teo Lin-Bianco