For Steppenwolf Theatre LOOKOUT Series Nereida Patricia has produced and directed TRAP DOOR, an experimental performance and musical score that began as a nonlinear inquiry into body politics and love in a climate of violence. Over a series of vignettes, the story of a trans sex worker who was murdered and reawakens on the moon, an original song about heartbreak, reimagined children's games, and a vision of apocalypse and new world built around Black diasporic consciousness are scored through improvised song and movement. Recorded live over a series of three performances, the audience, camera and spectator’s position clash in a multichannel video installation using live-cast body camera footage, set around the architecture of a sex swing. Both performer and audience are caught in dance marking out the body on an intimate and global scale. In music, the spiritual potential of improvised jazz and sound are utilized as a technology to transform, destroy, and create new again and again.

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