A quiet shift is happening at the edges of club culture, one that asks for presence over escapism, embodiment over spectacle. Future Forms, the newly launched performance initiative by EREZ and TANGUAY, arrives in New York City on Friday, January 30, at National Sawdust as a direct response to this shift, offering a radical reimagining of how electronic music, contemporary dance, and nightlife can coexist in the same space.

Rather than treating dance music as a functional tool for movement or contemporary dance as something to be observed from a distance, Future Forms positions both as equal forces in a shared experiment. The project places electronic composition and choreography in active conversation, allowing sound and movement to shape one another in real time. What emerges is neither a traditional performance nor a standard club night, but a hybrid ritual, one that blurs the line between audience and performer.

Founded as a queer-led, cross-genre platform, Future Forms is rooted in intimacy and process. The project grew out of the studio practice of EREZ and TANGUAY, collaborators and life partners whose relationship forms the emotional and structural backbone of the work. Their connection is not treated as subtext but as infrastructure, informing how the night unfolds and how vulnerability becomes a shared, communal experience.

The debut edition is structured across evolving chapters, beginning with BASE, a focused performance environment that introduces the project’s core movement and sonic language. Here, original live music by EREZ is paired with choreography by TANGUAY, performed by a cast of internationally acclaimed contemporary dancers. The emphasis is on presence, on witnessing bodies in motion without distraction, and on recalibrating how audiences listen and watch.

As the night progresses, OUTPUT extends this foundation into a fully realized rave environment. DJ sets from x3butterfly and Seb Wildblood carry the energy outward, maintaining the project’s sonic universe while opening the space for collective release. Future Forms resists the typical arc of nightlife; instead of building toward detachment, it guides participants toward deeper physical and emotional engagement.

This ethos, reconnecting people with their bodies, sits at the heart of the project. In a culture where going out often means switching off, Future Forms invites the opposite. The presence of professional dancers moving in raw, unfiltered ways acts as permission: to let go of self-consciousness, to move without performance, and to reenter the dance floor as a site of personal and collective transformation.

Both founders bring expansive practices to the project. EREZ, an artist, producer, and DJ, has performed at festivals such as Coachella and Outside Lands, and supported acts including Gorillaz, Dom Dolla, and Michael Bibi. Her work spans electronic and experimental territories, and she is also the founder of In the Open, a queer event series and label based in Los Angeles. TANGUAY, a movement artist and choreographer currently working with Gibney Company, brings a background that bridges stage, film, and fashion, with movement-direction credits for Vogue, Brain Dead, and NOWNESS. Together, they position Future Forms as a living collaboration rather than a fixed format.

The project is further shaped by a team of internationally recognized collaborators whose past work includes Radiohead, Sampha, Four Tet, and FKA Twigs, contributing to a cohesive sonic, visual, and spatial identity. Hosting the debut at National Sawdust, an audiophile venue equipped with a $1.5 million Meyer Sound surround system, cements the project’s commitment to immersive, high-fidelity experience. The space has previously hosted artists such as David Byrne, Four Tet, and Ryuichi Sakamoto, making it a fitting home for Future Forms’ ambitions.

Ultimately, Future Forms is less about genre and more about attention. It asks what might happen if we stopped consuming performance and started inhabiting it. On January 30, National Sawdust becomes the site of that inquiry, a place where rave culture, contemporary dance, and queer collaboration converge to imagine what the future of embodied nightlife could look like.

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