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CURRENT PROJECTS
Rat King (or a Rodent’s Funeral)
Rat King (or a Rodent’s Funeral) is an absurdist short film and installation. It is written and will be directed by Nina Lucia Rodriguez. The film is composed of six vignettes that converge in the theme of death. Five of the sections follow bereaved loved ones carrying out funeral rituals. The sixth section is laced in between these five, depicting five dancers embodying the dead, weaving a “rat king”. This project is currently in development and will begin shooting in 2025.
Das Rauschgift
Nina is currently collaboratively devising a dance theater spectacular, Das Rauschgift with Das Besties. Das Rauschgift is a new evening-length work about humanity’s relationship to drug use, addiction, presence, and the ineffable passage of time. The piece showcases the delicate hesitancy toward trying new things coupled with the learned fear of falling into a self-destructive pattern—all happening against a backdrop of FoMO. Nina will appear in this performance in late 2025.
Cast of Das Rauschgift in New Dance Alliance's Performance Mix at Abrons Arts Center, June 2025. Elyse Mertz Photography.
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