In their new production,
The Symptoms
attempt to recall, unravel and articulate the
experience of childbirth
, using
body parts, words, and images
. The four dancers rely on their own personal memories of giving birth, including body functions, traumatic and euphoric events at the same time. They try to turn everything that happened to them in the unconscious realm inside out, beyond the closed eyes and beneath the skin.
The performance has
English language subtitles.
Consciousness flees through the door of the maternity ward. Eyes shut tight. It’s the baby who calls the shots now. Mother crawls, stands up, climbs a few stairs, falls asleep, sideways or on her back, kneels down, finds something to grab. She expands and contracts back again. She pulses. She sweats. A new rubber material has been invented that can stretch to infinity and beyond, to the point closest to death. She turns back before the gates of the unknown. The sphynx are waving. Only the hair so far. Something ripping. Head first. Pause. Pauses and pushes: measures of evaporated time. Now a ninety-degree turn. A shoulder squeezes through. And then the rest slips out.
https://youtu.be/ECKVpCHwEkg
