BITEdown Collective is a Brooklyn-based company that incorporates the creative practices of artists in film, music and dance to produce layered multi-media performances. The mission of the collective is to facilitate artistic collaboration and generate environments in which their works live. They propagate artistic alliances to construct alternate realities. Cracked Teeth is their newest endeavor. The work is a study of the grieving process. Asking how does one grieve the loss of love through parts of self and parts of past selves? It is a study of how these emotions are planted in our body and where they ultimately take root. The work is a projection of the collective mind as it pieces itself back together. 

That’s when we realized, at the end of it, all we have are these

Cracked Teeth

Mangled and raw from centuries of holding on to you.

Wishing you stay

Grappling, gnashing

Knowing we would never get back to you.

After all our gifts of love all you gave us were these

Cracked Teeth

A mangled menagerie of thinning tusks

Tethered to a heart to keep her beating as a new piece shed from her

Cracked Teeth

Grieving in the grotesque

We wanted to make a shrine to each moment we gave a piece to you

A soliloquy of shards

Shattered pieces of a whole

Person 

Thank you for leaving us with these

Cracked Teeth 

Artistic Director: Aundrea Anderson

Collaborators: Annie White (dance), Devon Travis (dance), Elizabeth Dashiell (dance), Kate Hurly (film), Makenna Wolff (dance), Mattie McGarey (dance), Miriam Rose (dance), Nadia Halim (dance), Nathan Wheeler (music, Sydney Chow (dance)

IMPORTANT INFO BEFORE VISITING CPR:

CPR will require all artists, staff, and visitors to be fully-vaccinated against Covid-19 with an FDA- or WHO-approved vaccine, and will require vaccine boosters starting March 1, 2022. Masks must also be worn at all times inside CPR.