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Douglas Dunn and collaborators Brice Brown, Paul J. Botelho and Steve Gibson reprise BODY / SHADOW (2023), a layered multimedia opera that calls into question the coherence of the human body, highlighting its vulnerability and doubleness. The work asks: What is more real, a body or its shadow? The work features 17 dancers and Paul J. Botelho, who performs vocal improvisations and the libretto to a set score. The dancers perform a series of nonlinear, one-minute acts, at times stretching screens—or skins—as they move throughout the space activating different sections of a five-channel video. Two of the dancers act as fifth column free agents, invading the other dancers’ organized space, as well as Botelho’s actions, mischievously disturbing the logic of the performance. The video is a hallucinatory collage of shadows, still and moving images, and colors.