Cry, but keep it cute

How reportable is it to witness the suffering of others?
How do we bear witness to this suffering?
How do the pain and grief of others resonate within us?
How can we form a connection to distant pain and death separated by vast geographic and cultural distances?
Could the concealment and distortion of reality through biased reporting be among the deepest injustices of humanity?
How can we protect ourselves against this normalized, hidden, manipulative news machinery?
How do we preserve our humanity in a world designed to create “Others,” to categorize, archive, and rank people?

“Cry, but Keep It Cute” is a dance performance.
It develops movement scores as a form of resistance against the overwhelming flood of manipulative news imagery.
It examines pain and death as mediated by mass media—how bodies absorb representations of loss, death, and war.