9MIN29″ PERFORMANCE FOR 3 PERFORMER

Choreography by Shaula Cambazzu 

With : Shaula Cambazzu, Lucile Cocito and Shiraz Pertev

Sculpting space, matter and time by and with the body in an approach that inherits the culture of contemporary dance and conceives each creation as an organic element that dances the vibrations of the invisible, breathes with space, bodies in movement, substances and the sound atmosphere. 

Daughters of the sea is a project to create a short choreographic form that questions the reminiscence of our biological origins and imaginary background in a silent sorority. 

There are three of us and only one at the same time. The walking strain, made fragile by a bimalleolar fracture, is accompanied by two other bodies with slowed heart rates. 

A diving dance inside his body by a breath that oxygenates the heart and sends toxins back to the space around you. This rhythm shapes the soft advance of the performers on the floor. As she stands up and moves forward. Each step is a revolution that carries with it our genetic and historical heritage. Each step is a fragmented conquest of freedom. 

A step forward that cannot be made without building on our archaic origins, without diving inside ourselves into the depths of our inner sea. With each return to oneself, to the tangible surface, to the gravitational constraint, a breath like the Sumbisori of the Korean divers brings us back into the concrete reality of the here and now. A dance that dives into the depths of the dark ocean as it walks forward on the earth’s surface.

Three connected bodies, dancing the march of our stories in the great history of the daughters of the sea.

There is a real and radical physical change in the immersion experience of our body into the sea which is further accentuated during diving, in apnea, when the diver descends into the depths of the seas by his or her own means. 

A transformation, a physical change or even a metamorphosis that is the result of a million years of evolution in humans, the reminiscence of genes that we share with marine animals. 

We are children of the océan. We all start our life into the amniotique fluid that has 99% of chemical similarities with the water of the sea. As a newborn child placed into the water we will be able to reflexively moving trough water and change our rate of respiration and heart rate in response to be submerge. 

As an infant we are able to hold our respiration over 40 seconds, longer than many adults are capable to.

We lose those capacity into the learning of walking. 

By this march, staggering forward, in an unstable balance in a barely camouflaged fragility, we become earthly beings. 

WORK – IN – PROGRESS…