This Screendance takes a closer look at the behavioral impact of inherited stress and trauma. It investigates what roles fear, anger, guilt, shame, as well as learned behavior play in the rise of extreme leadership, and hints towards that war, violence and inequality are human habit rather than human nature.

In ‘UNDERNEATH’ the performers grapple with holding two spaces, that of white privilege, and a reckoning with its history of cruelty - past and present. It is an attempt to find pathways to avoid repeating history and changing habitual patterns. The perspectives of the performers form the lens of this investigation: A German, bisexual woman descendent of parents who were children in the Second World War, and a queer man. The artists bring into focus the privilege white skin provides and the weight of its inheritance.

They emphasize the transformation needed in order to overcome habitual patterns of Otherness and the perpetuation of power structures including systemic violence ranging from oppression to self harm to armed conflict.