What Doesn’t End In Water Ends In Light

What Doesn’t End In Water Ends In Light is a trio for two human bodies and Lake Näsijarvi.

In a quest to make the rationally-known inextricable link between humans and water viscerally felt, we take the lake’s water body as our dance partner. We become animated by its physics and dynamics, its water quality and ecosystem health data, its ever-changing sounds and states of matter, its deep time stories, lived histories, and conjured futures.

We teeter on the tightrope between love and extraction in today’s relationships with ourselves, each other, and the living world. We morph and spawn a hybrid human-water “performer” and movement language that queers and collapses notions of self/other, human/nature, intimate/vast, and autonomy/interdependence.

Ultimately, we embody an otherwise future: a hydrocommons where we recognize our watery bodies as both interconnected and differentiated and embrace that water must be wild to be life-giving. 

The performance contains partial nudity and emotionally evocative material. Recommended age: 12+.

The working group:

OTHERWISE Projects (Amsterdam, NL)

Anna Riley-Shepard (direction, co-creation & performance)

Maciej Beczek (co-creation & performance)

Lana Harris (co-creation & sound design)

Pirkanmaa Dance Centre & OTHERWISE Projects (co-production)