"Fishtail"

2024
FISHTAIL is an embodied exploration of the ways we attempt to escape the slowly clenching jaws of malaise in post-industrial society. The attempts to regain a sense of agency in a world with fewer and fewer alternatives to the cultural hegemony. Informed by Tong’s cousin, a former student of Millard South High School, who witnessed a school shooting in 2011 by Robert Butler Jr., the performance oscillates between extreme stillness and oblique aggression.