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I Tripped into A Puddle of Hysteria
Date
March 2026
Location
Lucky Trimmer Festival- Frankfurt, Germany
Dancer: Anisa Carolina Johnson
Sound Score: designed by Anisa Carolina Johnson by layering the following pieces:
String Quartet No. 6 in B-Flat Major, Op. 18 No. 6: I. "Allegro con Brio" (Beethoven)
"The Entertainer" (Scott Joplin) arranged for Strings -Version I
The spirit of beauty compels you to reflect in the looking pond of vulnerability where you find your stumbled self already lies.
This piece is a reflection of losing oneself through efforts to succeed. By representing the dancer as a clown, Johnson is pointing to the experience of finding oneself in unintended situations. Clowns are experts of highlighting and exaggerating the hypocrisy of human action which in this case is the paradox of the American entertainment industry’s capitalization of art. In “I tripped into A Puddle of Hysteria,” the dancer devolves from a state of frantic expression into a puppet-like figure, seizing control to please the audience. While the movement seems to gain clarity, this is only the taming and suppression of emotion beneath. Joplin’s “The Entertainer” is superimposed over Beethoven’s “Allegro Con Brio” as a metaphor for the concept of entertainment taking precedence over artistic spirit.
Last Presented: April 2026