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By contrast, in highly rugged shuffled landscapes, N is markedly reduced, while fitness gains also shrink. The relatively smooth empirical landscapes therefore enable greater fitness gains while lengthening adaptive walks, rendering even local fitness peaks effectively unreachable before environments change. These results explain the persistence of fitness gains in long-term evolution experiments and the widespread occurrence of beneficial mutations across species. 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With each day anew, what is our capacity for communion, grief, resistance, chance? In a world of relentless injustice and collapse, we question what is ending and what is beginning. DANCE ELIXIR's *Happy Days Finale* is an invitation to test these questions, in body and time.\n\nAt the heart of *Happy Days Finale* is Tawil\u2019s \u201cchoice-based choreography,\u201d where each performance unfolds uniquely. The dance composition is driven by decisions that transform the work into an ever-evolving conversation between movement, space, and sound. Tawil calls it \u201can act of agility and adaptability,\u201d - a dance that contains multiple truths with every iteration.\n\n*Happy Days Finale* is an invitation to think critically and collaboratively, to explore how we, as a community, can face the challenges of today\u2019s world. Tawil has created a space for modeling new ways of being in an unpredictable world. *Happy Days Finale* proposes dancemaking as a potent tool for liberation, urging us to question, to mourn, and to labor, together.\n\nPresented by Daring Dances and the Center for World Performance Studies.\n\n*If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact the Center for World Performance Studies at cwps.information@umich.edu at least one week in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.*\n\nBIOGRAPHIES\n\nLEYYA MONA TAWIL, Conceptual Score, Choreography, and Performance\nDirector of DANCE ELIXIR, Leyya Mona Tawil is an artist, performer, and cultural activist working in hybrid performance practices. Tawil is Palestinian and Syrian; engaged in the world as such. Her choreographies and sound projects have been presented throughout the states, Europe, and the Arab world. Highlight engagements: \u201cMy Name is Palestine\u201d exhibit at Southern Exposure (SF), performance commissions from Abrons Arts Center (NYC) and Sibelius Museum (Turku), and residencies with Sharjah Art Foundation (UAE), Wysing Arts\/British Council (UK) and PlayHouse Labs (Detroit). Tawil was nominated for a 2019 \u201cBessies\u201d Award in Music (NYC) and received the Ruth Arts Artist Choice Award 2026. She has stewarded TAC Temescal Art Center in Oakland since 1997, and is the founding director of Arab.AMP - a platform for worldbuilding artists from the Arab\/SWANA diaspora and our allied communities.\n\nZARI LIONUDAKIS, Dance Collaborator and Performer\nZari Lionudakis is an artist and educator who challenges perceptions of either\/or. A lone wolf in lineage, heritage and praxis, Zari's work in liminal space bleeds into her performance, technique classes, scholarship and healing modalities. The late historian Hayden White called Zari a \"radical visionary,\" as every mode of Zari's work challenges existing notions of what \"is.\" Whether ballet or vernacular, slang or scholarship, Zari uses languages that work towards liberation. She has performed extensively with DANCE ELIXIR since its founding in 2003.\n\nJOHN MACDOUGALL PARKER, Music Collaborator and Performer\nJohn MacDougall Parker creates improvisational future-folk compositions where sound is amalgamated and congealed into a resolution of crossed signals. He has devised instruments focused on the interface between humans and machines, which are arranged to make music in the moment. 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