A / VOID: Comfort Fedoke & Zoe Rappaport Invite Us Into a Radical, Healing Immersion of Movement, Light, and Sound

In a world that often demands us to rush, scroll, produce, and perform, Comfort Fedoke and Zoe Rappaport are inviting audiences to do something far more revolutionary: pause. Their immersive dance experience, A / VOID, is not just a performance—it’s a living, breathing encounter with presence, vulnerability, and transformation.

Following sold-out shows in June, A / VOID returns for a final run in Los Angeles on September 11 and 12, housed within the Chromasonic Field, a renowned DTLA light and sound installation that transforms color into audible frequencies and sound into visible wavelengths. This is not a traditional stage performance—it’s a sensorial journey. It’s where dance doesn’t just perform in a space, it becomes the space.

“The Field isn’t scenery, it is a co-creator,” Comfort and Zoe share. “Light pulses became cues, frequencies became breath, and vibrations became rhythm. Instead of imposing choreography on the space, we listened to it.”

Created by Emmy Award-winning dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker Comfort Fedoke—best known from So You Think You Can Dance and recent work on Wicked and Cabaret—alongside visionary movement director Zoe Rappaport, the project is as much a personal practice as it is a public offering.

“We had to confront the idea that as a creator, it is your responsibility to control or design every moment,” the duo explains. “Letting go of perfection and allowing space for raw, unfiltered truth is something both terrifying and liberating.”

In A / VOID, perfection is not the goal—presence is. The sixteen LA-based dancers moving through Chromasonic’s immersive environment aren’t simply executing choreography—they’re listening, responding, and revealing. Each performance is shaped in real-time, an improvised dialogue between human emotion, sound vibrations, and chromatic light waves.

The title itself, A / VOID, is a poetic provocation. It simultaneously implies avoidance and the void—what we run from and what remains when everything else falls away. This duality is central to the show’s message.

“What are you avoiding? What does it feel like to be witnessed?” Comfort and Zoe ask. “There’s a raw honesty in this project that might have been smoothed over in a traditional setting.”

Here, self-expression isn’t just permitted—it’s demanded. From grief to rage, tenderness to stillness, each dancer brings their own emotional vocabulary, turning their bodies into instruments of truth.

“Every dancer brings their own lived truth. Some lean into rage, some into tenderness, some into stillness,” the creators say. “We don’t want uniformity, we want a mosaic of humanity.”

In one particularly powerful moment, the convergence of all elements led to an unscripted breakthrough: “There was a moment where a dancer embodying grief collapsed and began crying with another dancer just as the light shifted into a deep indigo frequency and the sound dropped into a resonant vibration,” they recall. “It wasn’t staged to align that way, but in that instant, everything synchronized… That’s when we knew the elements weren’t just supporting the story, they were the story.”

This is what sets A / VOID apart. It doesn’t deliver a linear narrative. Instead, it opens a field of emotional frequencies where each person’s experience becomes the story.

In an era of endless talking and digital noise, A / VOID is a reminder of the body’s ancient wisdom. “The body holds what language can’t. Movement bypasses the filter of the mind,” Comfort and Zoe say. “You can rationalize pain forever, but when it trembles through your chest or pours out of your fingertips, that’s release.”

This is more than dance—it’s a somatic reclamation. Audience members are not mere spectators; they are participants in a ritual of healing.

“We want people to leave with the sensation that something shifted, whether that’s a softening in their chest or a clarity in their breath. The body remembers, and we hope this experience imprints a new possibility of presence and self-connection.”

In the cultural moment we find ourselves in—marked by overwhelm, disconnection, and constant consumption—A / VOID stands as a much-needed counterpoint.

“Immersive dance invites us to pause, to feel, to remember we’re not just consumers of content but beings with bodies and souls,” they explain. “Slowing down to witness movement and frequency becomes radical.”

In this sense, A / VOID doesn’t just entertain—it heals. It’s a collective exhale, a chance to remember that in our deepest silence and stillness, something sacred still stirs.

Don’t miss the final opportunity to experience A / VOID in Los Angeles before the Chromasonic installation closes its doors. The last performances will take place at Chromasonic Field (677 Imperial St., Arts District, DTLA) on Thursday, September 11, with immersions at 7:00 PM and 9:00 PM (including pre-show gatherings at 7:00 PM and 8:30 PM, and an “after-soak” in the Field at 8:00 PM and 9:30 PM).

The final evening is Friday, September 12, beginning at 8:00 PM with the immersive experience running from 8:30 to 9:00 PM, followed by a closing celebration and after-party hosted by UTOPIA from 9:30 PM to midnight.

This is your last chance to witness dance, light, and sound merge in real time inside one of LA’s most innovative sensory environments—where color becomes sound and sound becomes light.

You can always support the movement. As a fully self-produced, women-led endeavor, A / VOID is a labor of love and risk. The team is raising funds to compensate artists and ensure the future of this visionary work.

“We are an independent, women-driven team producing every aspect of this performance. Any amount – large or small – makes a real difference in the lives of dance-artists.”

Tax-deductible donations can be made through Fractured Atlas, a 501(c)(3) non-profit. Contributions go directly toward paying dancers, technical artists, and keeping this transformative work alive.

In Comfort and Zoe’s world, movement becomes a bridge between people, between the senses, and between the parts of ourselves we often silence. A / VOID is not just a show. It’s an offering. A mirror. A meditation.

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