(((pomegranate))) is a dance ritual by choreographer Sarah Ingel and collaborators, exploring themes of care, mourning, and aliveness through a queer investigation of theatricality, alchemy, and grief. This performance interweaves memory, mythology, and capitalism with symbolic fruits, offering a profound reflection on grief and love from an LGBTQ+ perspective.

(((pomegranate))) is a dance ritual and performance by choreographer sarah ingel + collaborators. Exploring contemporary rituals of care and mourning and of assembly and aliveness through an emotionally virtuosic choreographed ceremony. In this queer investigation of theatricality, alchemy, and grief, themes of memory + mythology, anatomy + architecture, capitalism + consumption intertwine with vibrant and symbolic fruits: mangos, grapefruits, watermelons… pomegranate: 1. a fruit the size of the heart 2. the etymological root for the word grenade With choreographed + improvised movement set to a text/music soundscape (a new collaboration with composer Dylan Gilbert), this performance serves as an invitation to dive deep into our own mythologies of grief. A mess of fruit, flowers, dance and dirt, together, we create an altar, a table, a memory, a ritual to hold us as we process complexities of loss and love. The action of cutting into a pomegranate is bloody and requires a delicate hand if you are to yield any fruit. The ritual demands urgency towards care. This duet nourishes, even inside the grief and gratitude that comes with cutting and consuming. What are the residues, the traces, the stains left behind as we are left bereft? Through our materializations and manifestations of assembly and aliveness, whether dance, performance, funeral, or feast: Can we consider how we might be forever changed by this encounter? Our grief knows no bounds, yet ritual requires endurance and endurance requires ritual.