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Seattle Dances: “In Tandem”. Published January 17 2026

Excerpt:

In the end it is just them and four empty plastic bags. Holding one bag and each hand, they raise the bags above their heads before forcing their arms downwards, inflating the bags with air with one swift motion. They move across the rubble ridden room like this, catching the air over and over. They settle into a steady audible rhythm – the gasp of the plastic through the air is like a forceful exhale, a required exercise of living. We can trust that there is an inhale as their arms raise silently up, the exhale pushed out immediately as they force the bags down. As the lights fade and the sound continues, they have captured my own state of suspension inside the impending apocalypse. I find myself exhaling at the moment the gasp of plastic occurs, my own balancing breath caught inside the inhale/exhale of theirs.