During twilight — as color slips into darkness — we revive the archaic and press it up against the contemporary. We host a gathering that will house a queered world, one which looks sideways through time: simultaneously into the deep past and future. In numerology, 5 is the number for freedom within form. In Thai, 5 is a digit that is pronounced “ha.” Writing 55555 is the text/chat slang equivalent of laughing—like “hahahahaha.” With this exuberance, we will begin the dance. Through densely layered rhythms and magic seen through flickering light, the audience is invited to circle around a ritual scene, one that invites alternate forms of relationality, participation, and co-creation.

The question that underpins this work is: How to exit? How can we disavow our current societal framework that requires social conformity, isolation, and mandatory participation within structures of violence predicated upon inequality? We ask how life can be more than this? 55555 imagines a temporary landscape, a cruising area for thought and sensation, a place to dream other realities into existence.