Hauntology 101: Back When I Was a Fish This Saturday 2p-4p @bandaloopstudios An advanced laboratory for artists with an established personal practice in movement, performance, or embodied research This immersive, three-hour class explores hauntology—a concept introduced by Jacques Derrida describing the persistence of absence, the presence of what is no longer or not yet here. We approach hauntology as a sensory methodology, a way of tuning the body toward what flickers at the edge of perception: memory, myth, violence, and longing. We begin by asking: What evolutionary traces remain in us from our time in water? What movements, instincts, and nervous impulses linger from when we were fish—breathing through gills, navigating with tails, suspended in fluid time? From this prehistoric inheritance, we move toward the deep imprints of historical trauma, particularly the embodied consequences of the transatlantic slave trade and its ongoing hauntings in Black and diasporic experience. The body is treated as a living archive—unstable, unfinished, and charged with both ancestral resonance and speculative possibility. We engage in somatic research, choreographic improvisation, vocal experimentation, and text generation to investigate how performance becomes a site of haunting: through our co-performers, our lineages of training, the materiality of space, and the ghosts embedded in sound and silence. This class does not seek closure or clean aesthetics. Instead, it cultivates an atmosphere of attunement and transformation—where pasts, presents, and speculative futures coexist in tension and vibration. Can we create a haunting together that reverberates beyond the studio—something that continues to move through our bodies, our art, and our communities? Participation is limited to advanced artists prepared to engage from a place of embodied rigor, conceptual depth, and vulnerability. 📸: @robbiesweeny