dancing
Home in Motion (12″, 2008)
dance performance
I am homeless, because there are so many homelands that take their place in me.
- Vilém Flusser
Dance is wings, it concerns birds and departure into the evermore, and quivering returns like arrows.
- Stephane Mallarmé
With Home in Motion we created a response to our shared experience of traveling and living in different places. On a more abstract level the piece reveals something about how we experience life as always moving temporality where nothing is fixed or certain: ever-changing encounters bring things together generating other things and feelings, and even break-ups will lead to new situations. The performance is an invitation to go on a journey with us, yet not necessarily in order to arrive anywhere, but rather as an experience of being on the way. How can one achieve a state of rest if the condition is restlessness?
“I was thinking of a butterfly that stands on a twig, twitching, and slowly opening and closing its wings. Then it takes off, flies around for a short while, then lands again in the same spot. Then again it twitches, and then takes off again, and again lands in the same spot. Again and again, almost like it was tied to a long string. Having the freedom to perform immensely intricate short flights, but always somehow limited in its freedom, and always returning to its base…” (Dave Ball about the piece)
Concept & Choreography: Sophie Springer, Dominika Willinek
Dancers: Mirela Kolo, Dominika Willinek
Video Projections: Sophie Springer
Music: Lemniscaat I / Simeon TenHolt
Performances in 2008:
May 20, Laban Centre for Contemporary Dance, London
August 9 & 10, Paradiso II, Performance and Live Art Festival, Stockholm
http://www.ungatur.se/productions/paradiso2/paradiso2.html