Pink Ashes is a group work for five dancers: Trine Lise Moe, Ornilia Percia Ubisse, Tora Skår Midtbø, Victor Amel Olivares Pedersen, and myself, Tony Tran. The ensemble brings together diverse bodies—queer, non-binary, female, male, Black, white, and Asian—who have all experienced different forms of violence in their lives.

Pink Ashes explores everyday violence: the kind that happens behind closed doors in families, the violence we carry within ourselves, and the violence we pass on to others in order to feel better. The project examines violence as both a protective and destructive force—something that can regulate and defend our boundaries, but can also intoxicate, blind, and spiral out of control.

The work focuses particularly on violence in intimate relationships and investigates how violence is closely tied to masculine identity, and how the expression of violence is often connected to ideas of manhood.