“I don't know how long I sat there everyday, looking at that shadowy reflection across from me.

This figure of another world, beyond the boundaries of glass and skin and time between us.

It was everything I was not, but in it, I could see the shapes of my voice, the sounds of my eyes.

And when it spoke, I could taste my own tongue. Those silent syllables of a lost language, sifting through my mind.

In its inhumanity I was repelled, but understood. Calling me from far away with a voice just like mine.

It spoke of beyond, and I saw before. It spoke of no ends, and I saw no beginnings."

This duet is an attempt to create an atmosphere of curiosity and anxiety by intentionally limiting conceptual choice. To see what can be produced as a result of intense monotony and unchanging apprehension. Instead of being allowed a playground of infinite options and widely varying dynamics, it attempts to put itself in a conceptual corner to focus its entire purpose on only one point.

An Excerpt of a Concept on Ritual and Monotony was a Top 10 Finalist of the 32nd International Choreography Competition in Hannover

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Choreography: Max Levy

Dancers: Max Levy, Miyuki Shimizu

Music: Lock Bites Key by LORN

Choreographic Assistance: Miguel Toro

Additional Thanks: Kirill Berezovski, Claudia Greco, Kihako Narisawa, Ting-An Ying, Mana Miyagawa

Premiered: June 29, 2018; 32nd International Choreography Competition; Hannover

Photographs: Ralf Mohr