my heart as an antidote: practices of solidarity

This dance performance seeks to connect through the heart, to communicate not on an intellectual level but through the more intuitive, mysterious, and invisible dimensions of our existence. We have said it many times—but how can we truly be present in this? And how can we find a body and practices that allow for this? We all know what a heart looks like, but few have actually seen its beat. When we do not insist on seeing the heart, we perceive the physical spark of life. In the same way, the performance is not meant to be perceived only with the eyes. As part of this performative world, it incorporates a sacred, mysterious dimension of existence. Through movement and dance, a different connection between us is sought, a heart through the coordinated magnetism of hearts in the performance space, activating our bodily intelligences.

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A light source that pulses continuously, low-throbbing  and unceasing; together with it, the sound of its pulse—elements that become perceptible when we grow still, much like the beating of our own heart, or the “heart” of others and their needs.

Inspired by the physical organ of the heart, the performance reveals the inner and sensory in a collective experience. Everything that is usually private—perceptible, sensory—appears here in vivid relief in the relationships between the performers. Thus, it is as if you are witnessing your own heart beating: when you are stressed or multitasking, when you are trying to support yourself and hold on, or when you are supporting another person, or even when you are silenced and find peace. Like a diaphragm that bears the weight of the heart in solidarity, dancers seek a body of solidarity—towards themselves and towards others.

A light source that pulsates continuously, softly and incessantly, accompanied by the rhythmic sound of its pulse, elements that become apparent in the performance when we are quiet, just like the beating of our own hearts. Four dancers and a percussionist interpret their interdependence, mutual support, and negotiate their differences, until they become a single unit: a body full of multiplicities, penetrations, enclosures, entrapments, but also transcendence. The work unfolds through four parts (four cavities of the heart) that pulsate in space: pumping, airy field/magnetism, bloody field, dancing pulsing.

It is a performance that is warm and rough, like the muscle of the heart, but also intangible and simple, like the fleeting nature of the "golden leaves of hearts" that dance among us and through our "human weaknesses." Where the heart begins to respond again—like an estuary of collective pulse—as an antidote to the knowledge of the biodiversity of our bodies, illuminating otherness, freeing love as an embodied act of resistance and a desire for a shared life. It is a continuous, often hidden effort to come closer to each other, again and again, so that we can truly encounter each other as human beings once more. 
Because the intelligence of our hearts can no longer be suspended, overstimulated, silenced by fear, or reduced to spectacle, it cannot be divided by pride or exploited as pity or vulnerability for political display. It is our gateway to "solidarity" – living with solidarity.

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The project is within the broader research thematic "practices of solidarity"