Bessie Award Nominee performance The Circle or Prophetic Dream was commissioned and premiered at Danspace Project in NYC in the fall of 2022. The performance is an anthropological research on how the body and sound inhabit social space as new forms of nomadism, during the current migration crisis caused by displacement, climate change and land appropriation. 

The Circle or Prophetic Dream exists in conceptual dialogue with The Square: Displacement with no End to create the diptych Sacred Geometry, as part of Núñez's larger body of work.

Medium: choreography, installation.

Choreography

Running time: 45 minutes approximately

Stage Dimensions: variable

Credits

Choreographer: Christopher "Unpezverde" Núñez

Dancers: Marielys Burgos Meléndez, Rafael V. Cañals Pérez, Jerron Herman, Veronica Santiago Monestel, Vivake Khamsingsavath, Christopher "Unpezverde" Núñez

Sound Composer and live Sound Performance: Alfonso "Poncho" Castro

Costume and Prop Designer: Branden Charles Wallace

Text and Audio Description: Christopher "Unpezverde" Núñez, Marielys Burgos Meléndez, Rafael V. Cañals Pérez

Producer: Christopher "Unpezverde" Núñez

Natural sound recordings: Pablo Castillo

“Carraca” instrument maker: Deiby Rojas Araya

Photo credit: © Ian Douglas, 2022. Courtesy of Danspace Project. © Christopher Núñez. © Felicity Audet, 2023. Courtesy of Princeton University. © Christopher Duggan, 2024. Courtesy of Jacob’s Pillow. 

Installation

Materials: Paper mache masks, masking tape, wooden houses on wheels, indigenous statues made of volcanic rock, donkey jawbones, rope, anatomical drawing..

Dimensions: Variable.

Photo credit: © Ian Douglas, 2022. Courtesy of Danspace Project. © Christopher Núñez, 2022. © Felicity Audet, 2023. Courtesy of Princeton University. © Christopher Duggan, 2024. Courtesy of Jacob’s Pillow.