A performance by Jasmine Dillavou

"The Dead Still Eat" is an improvised exploration of womanhood’s complicated inheritance, where the spirits of ancestors linger in the shadows of internalized gluttony and sacrifice. With visceral elegance, the piece weaves together themes of excess, femininity, and consumption — not just of food, but of history and expectation. As the stage fills with opulent indulgence and silent hunger, the performance asks: what are we fed by, and what do we truly devour? Through rituals of abundance and moments of stillness, the piece evokes a world where the dead are never truly gone, and where the appetite for both survival and power is unrelenting. "The Dead Still Eat" is a meditation on the cyclical nature of desire and the price of femininity — a lavish feast that cannot be satiated.

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Performance April 2025 Shutter & Strum

Colorado Springs, CO.