Serena’s upcoming work is a piece inspired by the Greek Classic, Lysistrata. A narrative about Athenian housewives withholding sexual intercourse from their partners until there is peace agreement on the Pelopenisian war. These women used the method of withholding and resisting what was deemed as a prized possession, and made it their military strategy- one that merged within the corridors of self awareness, intuition, grief, wisdom and honor. All in power, never in violence.

In her grievances towards the normalization of violence in our culture, the choreographer has taken the ideas of these women and re-constructed them on male identifying dancers.

Taking its primary concepts of sex, war, and gender, this piece explores and deconstructs the masculine tropes often war, conflict and sex, by exploring the relationship between violence and intimacy, and sex and war- where moments of a kill becoming a caress and redefining the trope- make love not war.