Dispersal of a Feeling: Bloodnotes on Choreography and Illness by Indira Allegra

What can an intergenerational conversation between three sick and disabled femmes reveal about the nature of choreography? Dispersal of a Feeling: Bloodnotes on Choreography and Illness is a poetic treatise on choreography, moving the reader between spaces haunted with loneliness and the overwhelm of communion. The rhythmic phrases here discover how dance can be found in everyday survival. Commissioned by The Lab, San Francisco, with funding from the Gerbode Foundation and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation with additional support by DisArt. Praise for Dispersal of a Feeling “a rich poetic weaving…merges the logics and feelings of dance and writing, blending them beautifully into one humming rhythm…Indira Allegra’s poetic prose sucks you in and spits you out.” —Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch, author of knot body and The Good Arabs Indira Allegra is a conceptual artist and founder of Cazimi Studio. Cazimi Studio uses weaving as a framework to creatively transform tension within different sites