Writings on Water

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Created in March in Venice, where Carolyn Carlson was the dance director of the Biennale for three years, this work parts the swathes of the past to conjure up the memories of her Venetian period in the early 1980s. 

In front of a hollow tree, her legs hampered by a heavy black skirt, Carolyn Carlson ceases to be anecdotal to become a transparent presence and a medium of forces stronger than herself. Arched between sky and earth, she panics at times, her silhouette broken by this existential torment that leaves her no respite. The more she advances in this solo, the more she seems to empty herself and to reach the bare bones of emotion, offering herself up to the spectator in a rare destitution.

Writings on water, a work of acceptance and serenity, has nonetheless a tragic aura in that it accentuates the issue of the body and of suffering (that the choreographer considers essential to understand life), that of loss regarding the desire for eternity.

Source: Rosita Boisseau