GENESIS & EVOLVING COLLECTIVE
GENESIS & EVOLVING COLLECTIVE
GENESIS
STUDENT PRESENTATION — REPORTED FACT:
The members met during the summer of 2013 at an intensive course at:
THE MARTHA GRAHAM SCHOOL
in:
NEW YORK.
The presentation identifies three founding first names:
- Manuel;
- Maria;
- Nicolas.
No surnames are supplied on the Genesis slide.
Do not invent them.
CLASSICAL ROOT / DISMANTLING
STUDENT PRESENTATION — INTERPRETIVE FRAME:
The presentation emphasises that the group began inside a classical technical tradition which it would later systematically dismantle.
Keep this as the presentation’s framing.
INTERNATIONAL ENTRY
The presentation states that YBDG entered the international scene in 2014 through a performance at:
CLUB SILENCIO
in:
PARIS.
The performance is described as involving:
- lime-green lasers;
- Enya techno remixes;
- a crowded and sweating room.
EVOLVING MEMBERSHIP
The presentation lists membership through Instagram handles organised by:
- permanent members;
- 2022;
- 2023;
- 2024;
- 2025;
- 2026.
The list demonstrates that membership is not presented as one permanently fixed cast.
Do not create individual member Thoughts.
Do not infer the legal or organisational status of each listed account.
COLLECTIVE MODEL
The presentation describes YBDG as a group that can:
- gather new performers;
- change between cities;
- form through short intensive rehearsal periods;
- produce different relational configurations.
This evolving structure is central to the presentation’s account of the collective.