louisedahl

Louise Dahl is a Swedish artist working within the field of dance and choreography. Within an expanded notion of dance, she researches the relationship between thought, motion and energy. Her work is characterized by a technical approach to the body from which she explores the physical manifestation of invisible and metaphysical realities.

A myth:
Skin
Shedding
Light jeans
Memory casts
Waxen and suspended
Woman
Hair
Testing breasts
The sky
Wall
Floor
Circle
Spine
Breath
If walls could breathe
Your skin backstage
Let anything you don’t need pass through your chest and out the back.

Hanging from the ceiling – memories, fragments, people; your friends? Your lovers? Your mother? I can see your mother in the audience. I can see you through a small crack between two heads, two lovers. You are leaning against the wall. Your face is buried, a secret. Your hair, brown like the backside of the bark, a visible camouflage, an alliance! You are sliding along the wall slowly. The wall is breathing. My girlfriend whispers that she can feel her breasts. You are leaning in, backing off, retreating into potential futures. You are captured in sculptures of wax, hanging from the sky. A return to a more primal state of being, where bodies are the vessels of experience. You are crawling, sensing the space between you and your memories. You are neither here nor there, a liminal figure tracing the contours of existence with an intimate familiarity.