What if There Isn’t Water to Perform in?
2021-2022
In my latest work: What if There Isn’t Water to Perform In? I explore the (schematic) visualizations of routines from synchronized swimming figures. The research on movement opportunities for synchronized swimmers out of the water provides a basis for this work.
The work's title simultaneously is the questioning behind it: is it possible for performers to retain the figures written for synchronized swimming “on land”? How many figures are still practicable without water? How can I translate the transitions from one figure to another without the possibility of a three-dimensional use of space?
2021-2022
In my latest work: What if There Isn’t Water to Perform In? I explore the (schematic) visualizations of routines from synchronized swimming figures. The research on movement opportunities for synchronized swimmers out of the water provides a basis for this work.
The work's title simultaneously is the questioning behind it: is it possible for performers to retain the figures written for synchronized swimming “on land”? How many figures are still practicable without water? How can I translate the transitions from one figure to another without the possibility of a three-dimensional use of space?
In What if There Isn’t Water to Perform in? various figures and routines are translated to a choreography and subsequently performed.
Credits
Dansers/performers: Polina Mirovskaya, Anne Roeper, Rachele Chinellato, Clara Grosjean
Music: Olaf Bosman
Support: Mondriaanfonds
Credits photos 3&4: Aad Hoogendoorn, Prospects, Art Rotterdam 2022
This work was on display during Prospects, Art Rotterdam, May 2022
Sketches of parts of the sequence, performance
Video overview during On Abundant Ground exhibition, Kunstpodium T, Tilburg 2022