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I invited five Hip Hop dancers to come to my studio and listen to old futurist Disco songs from the late 1970s while they meditated on the future. Before beginning the songs, I asked them to, while they listen, imagine a future that "they'd actually like to exist in". They then took a deep breath and listened to the whole song on a pair of noise cancelling headphones. These videos document this meditation.

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By asking the dancers to listen to Disco, but explicitly not dance, I was attempting to enact M. NourbeSe Philip's definition of poetry: "language under pressure". Their body language under pressure, the dancer's faces become almost legible geographies in themselves, inferring but not defining the worlds they imagine. 

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