Performance with handmade props, 2018.
PRE-APOCALYPTIC PILATES re-imagines pilates as a set of strategies for any body, a community practice that can be used to support ourselves by sharing knowledge and creating simple props with salvaged materials and things-at-hand.
PRE-APOCALYPTIC PILATES is an acknowledgement of the daily work many of us have to do for our self-care and healing. It is a rejection of the striving that is expected of us.
It is pre-apocalyptic to suggest that we don’t have to wait for disaster (personal or planetary) to take heed of our physicality. It is pilates, because it is an approach that begins with small, imagined movement, with breath, with the things we have available to us already and in the bodies we already have.
PRE-APOCALYPTIC PILATES was part of the public programming accompanying the Science Gallery Lab Detroit’s inaugural show, Hustle and was facilitated by Laura Neely from Equilibrium Studio.