“Entangled: For Better and Worse” explores how it feels to live with trauma once the charge has dissipated. While initially it was based around emotions of indifference and fleeting intimacy through my own healing it became about the support that the memory  of trauma can provide. Everything that happens in the world is a transaction of energy. That night of my trauma, malicious and painful energy was sent into the world, and as  alone as I felt, the moment felt all the same things I did. The memory is the only thing that exists that understands me and my trials and tribulations as well as I do. What I once saw as a scar left by my assailant to mock and haunt me suddenly became my greatest ally and friend—another victim. The piece then shifted into learning how to navigate this intimacy with something that one so naturally wants to keep boundaries from. The rope came to symbolize the trauma itself while the dancers share its weight and burden, and, at times, lack thereof.