We Are (nothing) Everything, Makisig Akin & Anya Cloud
Friday 19 Sep 2025 from 8pm to 8:30pm
Saturday 20 Sep 2025 from 4:30pm to 5pm
8 € (reduced) - 15 €
What can we do together that we cannot do alone? This experimental dance duet with a DJ is a queer reimagination of a creation story.
For the Parisian premiere, Makisig Akin and Anya Cloud will present a 30 minute adaptation of We Are (nothing) Everything. With patience, tenderness, and prayer Makisig and Anya epitomize the multiple ways that love can manifest. Intimacy facilitates straddling and queering notions of violence, care, pleasure, play, and gender.
Through performance the duo cultivates impossible conditions as an invitation to elusive spaces where desire, guilt, grief, and love intersect.
“We hold the complexity and paradox of being socialized female bodies who are queer and racialized. Sometimes we share a body and sometimes we splinter into the ether—we simultaneously elevate each other and take each other down. What becomes possible when love is stronger than fear? What does it mean to be intimately together in the wake and midst of multiple converging global crises? We embody the wildest dreams of our queer ancestors.” Makisig Akin and Anya Cloud
Choreography, Direction, and Performance: Makisig Akin and Anya Cloud
DJ: stevie gunter
Music and Sound Collaboration: DJ Rafush and stevie gunter
Dramaturgy: Maya Weinberg
Akin received an MFA from UCLA - University of California Los Angeles in 2019.
In the last three years Akin’s choreographic work has been presented internationally at Tanzfabrik Berlin Bühne, Uferstudios, Dock 11, Movement Research at the Judson, What You See Festival, OUTsider Fest, and Velocity among others. Intersectional identities and reconnecting with ancestral ideologies are central to their research. In 2021, Akin co-founded The Love Makers Company, a project-based dance company, with Anya Cloud. In 2025, Akin co-founded and co-directed Emerging Change Tanzfestival by and for QTBIPoC dance artists.
Akin regularly teaches internationally at festivals, workshops, and universities.Their teaching is integrally interconnected to their politics and creative research.
As a queer white person Anya orients their work to cultivate radical aliveness as an artist-activist practice.
Collaboration is central in her practice. Her work has been produced by Velocity, Dock 11, Tanzfabrik, Sophiensaele, Movement Research at the Judson, La MaMa, LA Performance Practice, REDCAT, What You See Festival, and Guatemala Department of Culture among others. Important collaborators include Makisig Akin, Sara Shelton Mann, Karen Schaffman, Eric Geiger, and Ishmael Houston-Jones.
Anya holds an MFA in Dance Theatre; she teaches at the University of Colorado Boulder, and co-directs The Love Makers Company with Makisig Akin.
stevie gunter has a bachelor's degree in Sociology, a master's degree in Library Science, and for more than a decade, been self/community taught across the mediums of sound and skin.