shorebirds
A duet crafted from improvisational poem-scores.
Shorebirds meditates on mermaids, mirrors, and hauntings. At the shoreline, the dance considers the dual myth and mundanity of water to understand the shifting tides of our relationships with self and other.
My back is a boat.
I walk on a landfill, not a metaphor.
A century of glass, bones and combs, tide unconcerned with our
physics.
I allow myself to be haunted.
“A strange ordeal, to say the least...aren’t you always haunted,
ultimately, by yourself?” - Anne Dufourmantelle
I return to the beach.
Choice comes from the hull, I mean heart, cleaving shore clean open with no hands.
Choreography, Performance: Cher Engmann and Maia Sauer
Sound: the night of serenity by klr, Longing for the Moon by Chihei Hatakeyama, Indistinguishable from Magic by Celer and Forest Management
Film: Sophia Abrams