Photos by Sarah A. Navarrete, courtesy of The University of Texas at Austin.

Choreographed by Sinclair Emoghene.

Mé Duniya (Hausa for “what is life?”) investigates the futility of existence and the complexities of telling history. Choreographed through theatricality, unconventional movement, sonicscapes, and imagined embodied transmissions, the work envisions a cold, drained planet where events never align – an exploration of reverse-dystopianism. Set 450 years in the future, it attempts to reconstruct fragmented pasts, asking how intelligent beings without clear recollections can situate origins to make sense of their world.