Centrifuge

Centrifuge is a dance film built from the feeling of overwhelm caused by a never-ending task. Centered on laundry, it transforms a mundane action into something heightened, physically demanding, and difficult to escape. What begins as an ordinary cycle expands through repetition into something excessive, theatrical, and absurd.

The work began from a simple place: a dislike of doing laundry. Before making the film, an installation was created by gutting a washing machine so that, when looking inside, a short film played of a girl scrubbing herself with a cloth. The installation became the starting point for thinking about laundry not simply as a task, but as a cycle of repetition that continuously returns.

Rather than approaching the subject with seriousness, the work leans into exaggeration. Dresses, loose hair, polka dots, and amplified physicality allow the performers to approach the task with dramatic intensity. Centrifuge exists in the tension between labour and play, necessity and performance, where something deeply ordinary becomes strange when isolated and repeated over time.