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Oasis of Serenity is a solo performance that weaves together a collection of horror imagery, hormones, and dances. A solitary presence moves through an unfolding landscape, seeking a portal for affective mattering, immersing in a mystical and hormonal experience that continuously mutates through movement. This body is neither fixed nor singular: it flickers, dissolves, and reconfigures, haunted by forces both seen and unseen.

Horror and fantasy, pleasure and fiction, the labyrinthine and the endless: this dance exists at the threshold, where the visible meets the invisible, where the body is stretched between states of becoming and undoing. A body both deeply personal and radically unfamiliar, guided by instincts and surges, bending to the rhythms of an internal dramaturgy dictated by the imperceptible forces of hormones, memories, and the echoes of past gestures.

The world is a little blurry
or maybe it’s my eyes.
I can’t see you anymore.
Bury all my things. I am on the edge of a nightmare.
I am stuck here, forever.

concept, choreography and performance Laura Ramirez Ashbaugh

mentoring and dramaturgy Bryana Fritz

sound Fernanda Libman

lighting design Pablo Fontdevila

set design/scenography Javi Cruz

costume Evadehouse

sculptures Marina Glez Guerreiro

external eyes Amparo Gonzalez Sola, Leandro Souza and Fernanda Libman

Tutors Konstantina Georgelou and Jeroen Fabius

Supported by DAS Choreography master (Amsterdam), Centro Cultural Conde Duque (Madrid), Ayudas a la creación contemporánea (Madrid), P.A.R.T.S summer residencies (Brussels), La Poderosa + Fabra I Coats (Barcelona), Festival Sàlmon (Barcelona), Mutis Espazioa (Bilbao) and IVAM museum+ciclo radicantes (Valencia)

Thanks to Sergio Montesinos, Ainhoa Hernandez Escudero, Tete & Fer, Pipo the dog, Rosana & Raúl, Lu Millet, Lorenzo García-Andrade and las chicas. Thanks to DAS Choreography peers and staff: Julek Kreutze, Fernanda Libman, Nisha Ha, Tis Ali, Amador Ruiz Folini, Ahmed El Gendy, Simone Truong, Cornelius, Leandro Souza, Jordan Demetrius Lloyd, juan felipe amaya gonzalez, Clarinde Wesselink, Setareh Fatehi, Alice Chauchat, velvet leigh, Harco Haagsma, and Udo Akemann