Nathaniel Moore — I dream a highway

I dream a highway is a contemporary dance performance about our relationship to future kin and what we offer them as inheritance. It puts the audience into the position of the future, from where they see archeo-choreographic remnants from the year 2026.

I dream a highway is inspired by the words of Nora Chipaumire, that “ancestors live in your bones, and even if you lost connection with them, they are there.” If there are ancestors in our bones, then surely we will live in the bones of the future. I dream a highway seeks to experiment with this relationality. Offering a landscape for envisioning a relationship with that which is both beyond and inside oneself.

This diagnostic dance performance reflects around causality, the potential towards responsibility, and towards building a speculative relationship with our future kin. How can we already assume the identity of an ancestor? What do we pass for our future to inherit?

about

Nathaniel Moore might be a troublemaker, a mother, an unemployed cult leader without a following, a storyteller, a shapeshifter, but is most definitely a dance artist based in Brussels working between choreography, performance, and artistic research. From 2020-2022 they participated in a.pass artistic research program, researching ghosts, speculative somatics, and social hauntings. Their performance work often deals with themes of alienation, whiteness, power, and fragility. Their work has been supported by wpZimmer, deSingel, and Horst Art & Music Festival to name but a few from an ever growing list. They are a resident artist at Needcompany Mills, and a member of the artist-Commons collective space in Brussels.