This is a video from a dance performance organized as a project supporting the realization of the Shelter.
Dancers: Alexandra Tsonatidou, Artemis Lampiri, Carla Behal, Izabela Pacewicz, Manuela Tessi, Sayaka Akitsu
Music: Alfredo Genovesi, Robbert van Hulzen, Yukari Uekawa
Voice: Luiggi D’Alessandro, Light: Damien Castel, Sound: Pablo Fagundez
Concept: Carla Behal and Dusan Rodic
EARTH
“This is your shelter.
This is our space. This is your space.
Mi espacio, tu espacio, nuestro espacio.
Your presence makes this space become alive. Life surrounds you, you inhale life, you exhale life.
This is your Earth.
Everything that surrounds you belongs to you, can you feel it? everything that surrounds you is part of you.
Can you see the sky?
You can choose the colour you want it to be, it can have as many colours as you wish…It’s your sky…. Don’t you remember???
Can you feel the soil under your feet, it’s warm, it’s nice.
Under your feet, under the earth, there are centuries and thousands of years, and thousands of lives, of histories, of glaciations, of memories…
But something is changing. there are little roots growing down, through the earth, getting longer, and longer, and thicker, and stronger…
It’s under your feet, under the earth
Under your feet, there are architectures of memories
Memories from yesterday, from tomorrow… reaching in distance, through the soil. They are reaching
How far can your memories go?
Can you remember when everything that you found in the way was just there waiting for you?
Nobody is a stranger, anything is unknown.
Can you remember when you didn’t have to think about what to do, or where to go?
Can you remember when you could just laugh without explaining why?
Can you remember when was the first time you….
Can you remember where….
Can you remember when was the…
Can you…
The time, the first time
AIR
In your hands rests the history of the universe…maybe you need to move your fingers, one by one to remember it…But now your arm is slowly moving, and one finger wants to point in the space and draw a line in the space.
Drawing a line in the air, your handprints on the air, your choices, your dreams are somewhere in the air, in space.
You know where is the right place, you always knew…
This flower is your hand, with this flower you can leave a message in the air.
Painting in the air
WIND
Your message is now printed in the space, you have now the opportunity to take the first step, your first step, in any direction you desire. You are free to explore this land, maybe you want to reach somewhere in the distance.
Maybe you want to reach the shore of the river. Maybe you want to reach the mountain. Don’t be afraid, you are safe, nothing will happen to you. You know which is the right direction.
We will guide you …
The wind will guide you.
The wind is coming,
the wind is around you
Let the wind be there for you
WATER
The wind is gone…
suddenly you can feel a small drop of water on your left shoulder, then another drop on your nose. Yes. It’s raining, very slightly. Raindrops on your skin.. water on your skin…
Your body is absorbing this water through your skin,
water is travelling inside your body,
water is flowing,
water is vibrating,
water is dancing under your skin…
let it be there, let it be there. Can you listen?
the water is telling you a secret.
Un secreto. El secreto. Tu secreto. Mi secreto…agua.. secreto.. agua..
FIRE
The vibration gets bigger and bigger… your body starts moving, and your body is shaking!
Water is moving your body, very slightly, water is moving you…
water makes you travel,
you are here,
you are not here,
you are turning around,
you are looking up,
looking around,
you are twisting,
you are shaking,
you are melting,
you are watering the space,
you are evaporating into the air,
you are energy in the air,
hot energy in the air,
you are a flame
all your body is sparkling
you are here,
you are not here,
you are there, you are not there,
you shake, and you dance, and you shake, and you dance, dance! Dance!
Dance! you can’t stop dancing!!
The first time
Your handprints in the air,
your choices,
your dreams
It’s under the earth
Your message
Is somewhere, in the air…”
By Carla Behal