Neighbors 5
Sun, Nov 22 @ 3pm, 2026

Regina Nejman and Despina Sophia Stamos (choreographers/dancers/co-creators of Neighbors)
Julian Rozzell Jr. (composer/sound designer)

Regina Nejman and Despina Sophia Stamos explore the charged spaces between bodies, histories, and the social scripts that shape female presence. The performers navigate a score of entrances and exits, sustained stillnesses and sudden crossings: a physical architecture of parallel lives that hover next to each other. They are adjacent, sometimes touching, sometimes never quite touching, but always aware.

The dance centers the interiority of women: their thinking, feeling, dreaming, protecting, witnessing the interior voices that rarely get staged. It treats costume not as decoration but as an engine of self-transformation. Clothing becomes social commentary: an index of how women are framed, branded, consumed, idealized, erased.

Music and sound by Julian Rozzell Jr. deepen this layering, sometimes breathing beneath, sometimes disrupting with tonal or rhythmic breaks. The sound composition operates as both pulse and counter-narrative, a parallel line of meaning that moves beside the body, not under it.

The work is intimate rather than spectacular; it privileges detail, nuance, and the tiny negotiations between two people sharing space. Ultimately this is a study of proximity-how close we are, how close we allow ourselves to be, and how every choice of gesture, garment, and gaze changes who we are allowed to become.