TECTONIC

“For ecological, political and choreographic reasons, we (the inhabitants of Terra) need to learn to move with movements that go beyond the human.” — Emma Bigé, Mouvementements - Écopolitiques de la danse

On a central stage, surrounded by the audience, a dancer is immersed in a landscape of resonant materials. Her movements tune into vibrations and forces beyond herself, guided by motions of divergence, convergence and grinding shifts, echoing gestures that are not her own. She embodies friction, collapses and persistence through evolving sequences of repetition, accumulation, phasing and directional flow. The stage architecture, formed by moving metal plates and shifting layers of linoleum, is a dynamic, tactile mechanism that transforms space into a performative element. Light interacts in evolving patterns – refracting and bouncing –, altering the perception of boundaries between body, space, and material. Sound, melding electronic compositions and field recordings, creates an immersive sonic environment of organic textures and haunting rhythms.

The audience is invited into a multi-directional space where shifting thresholds of visibility and corporeality  unfold. The dancer, immersed in these vibrant materialities, carves pathways and rhythms that blur boundaries between what is seen and unseen, transient and enduring, human and nonhuman—who moves?

TECTONIC draws its name from the ancient Greek tektonikós and Latin tectonicus, meaning “building.” In geological terms, tectonics refers to the processes that shape and reshape the Earth’s crust over eons. The project unfolds as a conceptual, physical, material, and perceptual investigation of body, scenogrpahy, sound, and light as mutually affecting forces––operating in a continuum between subject and object, presence and disappearance.