Dance Performance: Roadkill by Sarah Lutzky

An experimental performance animates the galleries of the Coral Gables Museum as choreographer Sarah Lutzky stages Roadkill, a two-hour durational work presented during the Art Basel Brunch program. From 10 a.m. to noon, the museum becomes a shifting landscape of bodies, text and quiet disruption, with visitors free to drift through the space or settle in long enough to feel the piece accumulate its meaning.

Lutzky’s choreography folds spoken word into gestural, sometimes fractured movement, using the image of a traveler confronted with a dead animal on the road as an entry point into larger questions—how we process fear, what we make of vulnerability and the uneasy balance between witnessing and being witnessed. The performance unfolds in loops, each pass slightly altered, creating an atmosphere where nothing repeats exactly and everything feels momentary.

Born in Los Angeles and trained at NYU Tisch, Lutzky has developed a practice that moves fluidly between dance, performance art and experimental media. Her work has been shown at venues such as The Tank NYC, Chez Bushwick, Arts on Site, Martha Graham Studios and The Jack Crystal Theater. As founder of SLUT Dance Collective and a 2023 ETD New Choreographer Grant recipient, she often gravitates toward themes that sit just outside polite conversation such as grief, danger, desire, the threshold moments people prefer not to name.

This event takes place Sunday, December 7. Admission is free as part of the Art Basel Brunch program.