Maybe We're Creative

Screenshot of Maybe We're Creative, 7 min 58 s, 2024.

Maybe We're Creative, 7 min 58 s, 2024

Seika Boye writes, “dancing, as I’ve come to understand it, is just a state of awareness and self in relationship to other things… all things”

Maybe We’re Creative is an exploratory and participatory research project. Over three months, my dad and I learned House Dance, using shared movement and reflection to navigate untended aspects of our relationship. This process of learning and mutual adaptation offered a broader question:

How does our understanding of dance, or any creative expression, expand when we see it not as expertise, but as a way of being together? What happens to our relationships when participation becomes the priority over perfection?

For Why Do I Never See You at the Club?, this film joins a conversation about dance not just as an individual act, but as a collective practice of coexistence in motion. Dance floors are sacred places –whether it’s a kitchen or bedroom, a block party, a club, or the front seat of a car, we build the club we want to go to. We move our bodies to remember that dance belongs to us all, and in collective movement we remind ourselves that we, in all of our complexities, in some way, shape or form, belong to each other.

Maybe We’re Creative has been condensed for the purpose of this exhibition.