Centrifuge

Centrifuge is a dance film built from the gestures of washing clothes by hand. Scrubbing, wringing, airing, hanging, and folding become choreography, revealing laundry as a repetitive cycle of labour often carried by women. Through repetition and physical effort, the film brings intensity and drama to an everyday task that usually goes unnoticed.

The project began from a simple starting point: a dislike of doing laundry. Although mundane, the task evokes a feeling of endless repetition that became the foundation of the work. Before making the film, I created an installation by gutting a washing machine so that, when looking inside, a short film played of a girl scrubbing her clothes by hand. This installation became a way of thinking about laundry not simply as a chore, but as a cycle that is difficult to escape.

Rather than treating the subject with realism, Centrifuge leans into exaggeration. Dresses, loose hair, polka dots, and heightened physicality allow the performers to approach the task with theatrical intensity. The work explores the tension between labour and play, and how something mundane can become dramatic, excessive, or even absurd when isolated and repeated.

Centrifuge exists within that contradiction: the work is necessary but never finished, serious and unserious at the same time.