Natural Selection
NOVEMBER 2021
Sam Houston State University PAC
Directors:
Alethea Alexander + Adele Nickel
Costumes: Barry Doss
Soundscore from: Laurie Anderson, crowd-sourced audio capture
Sound compiled and edited by: Alethea Alexander
Showings and residencies at,
Sam Houston State University (Huntsville, TX)
Natural Selection is inspired by the eusocial structures of ant colonies, and uses recordings of ant sounds in the opening soundscore. In eusocial societies, ants practice altruism and cooperation, deferring individual “fitness” and dominance in favor of group survival and the success of the colony. We additionally have raw footage for a site-specific dance film version of this work, to be edited in 2022. Dancer/collaborators are undergraduate and graduate students at Sam Houston State University.