Recap of "little red" at Hex House (with photos!)
You're growing up so fast, Little Red.
Photo collage (and all photos below) by Pat Plush
Did you walk with us on Little Red’s path through the woods, at Hex House on Feb. 22?
If so, leave a comment about what your experience was like!
If not, we’d love to tell you about what happened…
The night opened with a spellbinding DJ set by Hex House’s own DJ Yourszlf, during which the performer Cody looked at the wildness in all of us through the lens of “the wolf,” initiating our audience of 100+ to the space and the themes of our re-telling. We then launched into the tale, Delilah spinning a spooky, bass-heavy set as Hunter narrated their take on the story. We drew from an arcane, wilder version of “Little Red” and discussed how it was re-worked to serve patriarchal bourgeois morals.
The next performer, MTHR TRSA led us into the forest, insinuating that Little Red’s relationship with the wolf may have been sexier than previously known. Next up, Klondyke embodied the wolf as someone deemed deviant, perhaps unfairly, by society, and left with no other choice but to lean into that identity.
We were then left reeling by s4y’s technological dance between “boy” and “wolf,” which drew on incel culture and the glamorization of alpha males. melanie hoff blurred the boundary between wolf and Little Red, victim and villain, while strung up into the air on a mattress, a climatic moment that culminated in a touch of piss play (drawing on that older version of the story).
Finally, all our Little Reds and wolves—including you, if you were there—ran through the space howling and clawing at the walls to escape. As Delilah played the hopeful track “Pigeon Barron” by HAAi, Hunter narrated powerfully about the importance of rewilding as a process of resistance: by becoming wolflike herself, Little Red (or rather, you) fought her way to freedom. Perhaps the wolf wasn’t as much of a bad guy as those manipulative storytellers, Perrault and the Grimms, wanted you to think.
The night ended with a Shakira track (can you guess which?), followed by an explosive set by DJ DOLLNXTDOOR. We danced into the night feeling our fearlessness, and aware of our power to fight back.
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xo, Hunter and Delilah