the world forgetting by the world forgot, (1997)
Choreography, costume, set, text, video, music: Paul Zmolek

“...combines a dizzying array of references-biblical texts, ritual dance, homosexuality, fundamentalist religion, and electronic and world music - to create a world of weird, new ritual.  It’s all aimed at questions of death and resurrection, the role of the scapegoat, the habits of guilt, and the symbolic cannibalism that is the basis of all the world’s religions...terrific and intelligent.” - Belinda Cheng,  O.C. Weekly

 A mourning ritual of AIDs related deaths, the world forgetting by the world forgot was informed by the structure of the Roman Catholic Mass, research of ancient dances of mourning, Greek Mystery Religions, human sacrifice research and the writings of ACT-UP founder, David Wojnarowicz.