The Movements of Aphrodite

Running time: 80 minutes

Mv.1: Disrupt order. We reject the traditional relationship between Dance and Choreography. Questions arise: If Choreography is everything and everywhere, under what conditions does it become absent? How will we handle this change?

Mv.2: Bubbling. Aphrodite, the goddess of love, beauty and sexuality, was born from the foam created when Cronus castrated his father and threw the severed genitals into the sea. Jean Luc Nancy says that Aphrodite represents the “swelling of the waves, movement upon movement, the incessant backwash, the lapping…” The creation of Aphrodite evokes images of irregular rhythmic patterns.

Dance: movement over movement, shifting weight from one side to the other, foaming. We detect patterns. More questions arise. How will we travel from one pattern to another? Will the cut between one and the other always mean the end of repetition, an end of reproduction? Aphrodite says: “As I was born in both female and male gender, neither gender is independent and unique.” This is a story about oscillations between certainty and indeterminacy.