FIELDWORK

In FIELDWORK, the black sack begins as a simple prop but evolves into something far more vital: a partner, a metaphor, a second skin. It distorts and reveals, cloaks and clarifies, making visible a new kind of body—one caught between presence and disappearance. Through these explorations, a different physicality emerges: one that navigates the liminal space between what is seen and what remains hidden.

At its core, FIELDWORK is an inquiry into negative space, an investigation of how the unknown lives with and through us. The work proposes a quiet call toward coexistence—within ourselves, with each other, and with the landscapes we inhabit. The instrument—whether seen as prop or extension—becomes the vital force that drives the body’s engagement with its environment. Movement arises not from the intention to perform, but from a sustained, unyielding dialogue between the body's impulses and the resistance it encounters. The instrument does not dictate the action; it responds, drawing the dancer deeper into physical inquiry. Serving as a grounding mechanism, the instrument offers stability within a practice that deliberately eschews conventional performative structures. It is the axis around which the investigation pivots, demanding constant collaboration with the immediate surroundings.

Through repeated interaction, the instrument ceases to be a tool and instead becomes an inseparable part of the dance—a living agent of energy, tension, and release.In this practice, the body acts as both sculptor and sculpture, reshaping the landscape it occupies even as it is reshaped in return. Time is not a constraint but a material to be worked with, expanded, and folded into the experience. Every interaction with the prop becomes a moment of transformation, not just for the body but for the practice itself. There is no end goal, no final product—only an active, ongoing investigation. FIELDWORK ultimately shifts the focus from what is created to the act of creation itself: a perpetual immersion into presence, discovery, and relation.