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Dark Field Analysis draws its name from a branch of alternative medicine that uses dark field microscopy to diagnose systemic bodily conditions originating in the blood. But the conversation between the two men encompasses more than medical facts. Here, blood serves as an analogy for looking inwards and outwards: Into and beyond our selves.

Two bodies come into awareness of one another. In silence, they connect; in stillness, they converse. Dutch-Swedish dancer and choreographer Jefta van Dinther explores relationships to the self and other forms of life in the experiential and existential Dark Field Analysis. Centered in an intimate round, the fully exposed duo of creator-performers Juan Pablo Cámara and Roger Sala Reyner transform and transfix in a powerful physical piece that is at once disquieting and sedative, enigmatic and enlightening.

Dark Field Analysis prompts a journey into and beyond the self using analogy and imagery of vital fluids. A performance that gets under the skin.

Senses are amplified as we come to observe the two lit specimen against contrasting, encompassing blackness. Human, animal, and machine blend; the lines between synthetic and organic are blurred. It’s a profound meditation on the chronic mundaneness of life and being that culminates in a startling awakening to even the most minute of its expressions.