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upright bodies
Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway 2019Upright Bodies shows a life-sized projection of three dancers moving within a confined frame. Their bodies remain in close proximity, continually negotiating space, adjusting, yielding, supporting one another and resisting. Movement emerges through constraint, the dancers lean into and against one another, finding ways to continue within a structure that limits expansion. Balance is not fixed but constantly re-established, dependent on subtle shifts of weight and attention. At times, support becomes restriction; at others, it enables movement to continue.
Each body searches for its own rhythm while remaining entangled with the others. Individual gestures are interrupted, redirected, absorbed into a shared field of motion. The choreography does not resolve into harmony or conflict, but remains in a state of ongoing negotiation. The performers maintain eye contact with the viewer, drawing attention to the act of looking as part of the work. This gaze introduces another layer of relation, extending the dynamics of tension and support beyond the frame of the video. The work lingers in the space between autonomy and dependence, asking how movement is shaped by the structures that contain it, and what becomes possible within those limits.
