Phantom Limbs

Created by Kristi Hansen with Moment Discovery

“Phantom Limbs” is a glitch in the machine. A dance with the past. A memory play that may or may not remember correctly.

Part performance, part technological misfire, Phantom Limbs explores what the body remembers even when something is no longer physically present. Through movement, body-based technology, and layered memory, Kristi Hansen plays with absence, sensation, and the poetic tension between what once was and what remains.

Artist Credits (Whole Team Involved)
Creator / Performer – Kristi Hansen
Body-Based Technology Direction Collaborator – Pamela Anthony
Dramaturgy Collaborator – Mūkonzi wã Mūsyoki
Movement Collaborator – Ainsley Hillyard
Environmental Design Collaborator & Stage Manager – Tessa Stamp
Show Control Collaborator – Jonah Badger
Sound Design Collaborator – Charffy Wang
Sound Design Mentor and Collaborator – Aaron Macri
Body-Based Technology Consultation & Collaborator – Will Bauer
Producing Collaborator – Meghan Desjardins
Voice Artists – Tsholo Khalema and Sheldon Elte

Special Thanks
A big thank you to the entire Moment Discovery team for their trust, investment, and belief in the Phantom Limbs project. And a huge thank you to the original 2022 research collaborators—Carly Neis, Sissy Thiessen Kootenayoo, and Chris Dodd—who helped explore the concept of phantom limbs and the poetry that exists
within what our bodies remember.
A large portion of Phantom Limbs draws from Woody: a 2005 commission from the Manitoba Council for International Collaboration with original direction by Sheldon Elter, Sound and Video Design by Clinton Carew, revival direction by Murray Utas, and revival dramaturgy by Steve Pirot in 2012.

All tickets are Pay What You Will (PWYW). The suggested price is $35 but any amount is accepted.

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More information about access at Expanse 2026 will be coming soon and can be found on our website azimuththeatre.com. Any access inquiries and/or feedback can be sent to Carly@azimuththeatre.com. 

• $35.00
• 21-March 27, 2026
• 65 minutes
• Moment Discovery
• Moment Discovery
• 14A
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  The performer will be working without a prosthetic limb and dancing on their amputated limb (or stump). They are safe and not in pain. Discussion and images of past and present-day world conflicts. Internalized ableism. Projected video with motion.