MARIKA NIKO

Caress is a 28-minute immersive audio choreography that explores the gendered and racialized labor of providing and accepting care. As Caress moves between story fragments, meditative and erotic narration, and domestic choreography, we ponder together the ways in which care expresses itself in our most intimate moments with lovers, family, friends, and nature.

Experience the audio here: https://www.caressaudio.org/

A site-specific dance performance, the works blends memory and materiality in a duet that challenges the presence of time and the body reflected and refracted back to them.

Being inspired by Butoh, this piece talks about how my body actively chooses, embodies, deforms, habitualizes, and takes on the pressure not from society but from my own self. Directed, choreographed, performed, and designed by myself.