In this space where everything disappears and converges, one may find closeness and belonging.
When the notion of “home”—tied to a specific place—begins to dissolve, longing to Be explores how one can interweave the past and the present, and find belonging in memory through dance. The piece can be perceived as a trilogy, blending the technicality of media with dance practices in relation to Henri Bergson’s idea of memory as a continuous flow of images. As a whole, it is an honest confrontation about the incapability to say something about “there” in “here.” It is a reconciliation between the artist and dance—moving beyond doubt about dance’s fleeting nature toward an embrace of its unique temporality, drawing a parallel line between the disappearance of a place into memory and the fading of a dance into memory.
Concept, choreographer and performer: Suet Wa Tam
Media artist: Jiawen Wang
Sound artist: Eagle Wu
Mentors: Scarlet Yu, Jule Flierl, Wen Hui, Phillip Gehmacher, Frauke Havemann
Photos Credit: Dijana Zadro
Review by Johanna Ackva in Tanzschreiber
Showing:
2024 Sep – BA Graduate Works 2024, Uferstudios Berlin
2025 Feb – An Experimental Ecology. Art practice in the dialogue of disciplines at the UdK Berlin , UNI.T Theatre der UdK Berlin
2025 Sep – Performance-Wochenende, Kleinen Orangerie am Schloss Charlottenburg
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