Landslide

Solo performance, 20 minutes

Landslide is inspired by sickness and the phenomenon of fever dreams – that hospital feeling of being unable to locate oneself in reality, shifting through different hallucinations of the body and mind – shimmering, colourful and fantastic, and all the while to an outside observer the patient is simply fragile clammy trembling in a hospital gown. When choreographing the piece I had the feeling of being a small girl in hospital for weeks, alternating between being barely able to move and suddenly acting out her fantasies of dance and transformation into characters and non-human beings. 

I have been intentionally minimal and concentrated with this piece. Thematically, Landslide centres on sickness and crumbling as a form of renewal. I had the idea that pared down to my skeleton, feverish and having all of my previous life stripped from me, my bones could listen to the memories of the Earth around me (embodied in the music) and find a new way to live. I do not know what this means, so I’ve tried to dance it. 

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