BONES

BONES

The choreographic work BONES explores the relationship between structure, support, and fracture through the human body. The body appears as a living system that constantly adapts to pressure, transforming its form in order to endure.

The creative process began with the observation of the body as both an anatomical and a dynamic structure. Throughout this investigation, trauma emerged as a material for creation, with memory approached not as something to be overcome, but as something that returns and transforms through the body and the artistic act.

On stage, bodies meet—each carrying their own distortions and histories—forming new systems of support and balance. Movement arises from this encounter, from their need to lean on one another, to shift, and to redefine their form.

Out of this exploration, relationships emerged. Narratives and traumas were transformed into connection, contact, and expression, creating a choreography in which structure, deformation, and survival coexist.

BONES is the second part of the body trilogy Skin – Bones – Heart.

Choreographer’s Note

I am drawn to the idea that bodies are not only forms, but archives—that they carry memories, our own and those of others. Memories that are familial, historical, collective. Things that were spoken, and things that remained silent.

During the process of BONES, we wrote texts, poems, and narratives around these memories. Gradually, the words shifted into the body, becoming relationships, contact, and movement. We were interested in exploring how bodies meet while already carrying their own fractures—how they support one another, how they shift, how they invent new forms in order to continue to exist.

Perhaps, in the end, bones remember what we forget.

“My works are my bones.
My wounds are the structure.
And I, who was born within bone,
broke in order to fit.”

— Louise Bourgeois

Duration: 45 minutes
Suitable for ages 10 and above