"Every Pretty Thing"

A dance-theatre "pas de deux" by Ken Yoshikawa and Alanna Fagan, "Every Pretty Thing" unpacks vital social and emotional questions. Pop psychology and Instagram Therapy have been diluting nuanced clinical mental health topics to buzzwords and generalizations for several years now. As this language is reappropriated for TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, and more, words like “triggering,” “gaslighting,” and “narcissist” have begun to lose all meaning. This means that mental health issues and neurodivergence have their negative stereotypes reinforced, while also being oversimplified and dismissed. Through this original performance blending theater and dance into a boundary breaking new medium, Yoshikawa and Fagan use their own experiences with trauma, mental health issues, and neurodivergence to push back against the black and white thinking of Social Media. "Every Pretty Thing" will infuse new layers of nuance and understanding into society’s new habit of pathologizing everyday behavior, and unpick the threads of technology’s intersection with human relationships. "Every Pretty Thing," will be performed in November of 2025 fo r 3 weekends of 3 shows each. All performances will be Pay What You Will pricing, in keeping with our mission of financially accessible new works, and the final 3 performances will be ASL interpreted.