The ResistDance By Bryan Buckley

Director and political activist Bryan Buckley captured a real-world memorial performance to honour the lives of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, killed by federal forces in Minnesota. Created in close collaboration with choreographer Matthew Steffens and produced by hungryman and the artist collective First Amendment Troop, The ResistDance was staged at America’s most symbolically significant locations - the Lincoln Memorial and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. - on President’s Day. Through choreographed movement and carefully staged visual composition, the performance used contemporary dance to reflect on loss, civil liberties, and the role of artistic expression within a national landscape still grappling with the events it commemorates. The 90-second piece featured twenty-two professional dancers, each representing one of the twenty-two days between the two deaths.