Digging Holes & Sailing Salt - Gallery Version2024
This shortpiece tells the story of a creature that falls into a hole and slowly makes its way out by its way out by putting on several layers of clothing while it is in constant motion and increasingly in constant motion and becoming increasingly dense.
*Sailing Salt is a poetic image of how to navigate through the sweat that appears on the skin, how to connect the space and the skin with its porosity through the layer of sweat and using it to gain wind
Digging Holes & Sailing Salt deals with the desire to give a voice to unnamed forms of existence from beneath the earth and interweaves parts of Sarah Vanhee's essay "The Fantastic Institutions" into the material. Perhaps this solo dance is a protest, a poem or an excursion into a world that is often invisible and therefore less perceived. In this sense, the dance and the movement become transformers of voices or thoughts and, in the best case, provoke an altered state. The movement material lives from how it is performed. Simple, repetitive sequences are performed into the space with care and awareness. Repetitive elements mixed with interruptions form an important framework of the choreography.
Strobing (double time dime-stop)
In Digging Holes & Sailing Salt, Jamuna works with the technique of "strobing", a quality of movement that she got to know through the dance culture of popping and was was fascinated by this effect, which creates an illusory strobing effect. She uses this form of movement to lead herself into a state of constant interruption. Dew worms, for example, live in the ground and react sensitively to changes in light. If they suddenly perceive light or shadow, they can quickly bury themselves, which corresponds to a kind of switching on and off of their behavior.
- Year
- 2026
- Duration
- 00:14:44
- Concept / choreography
- Jamuna Mirjam Zweifel
- Performance
- Jamuna Mirjam Zweifel
- Outside Eye
- Maureen Zollinger, Hannah Juliane Steenbeck
- Sound
- Léa Jullien
- Light
- Jamuna Mirjam Zweifle
- Costume
- Jamuna Mirjam Zweifel
- Documentation
- Hannah Juliane Steenbeck
- Video Link
- Full Video Performance
- Video Link
- Trailer
- Support
- Tanzfest Winterthur, Kunsträume OXYD