The Choreography of Water

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The Choreography of Water explores the movement of water, from the invisible flows inside the body to those that shape the planet.

Inside the human body, water flows constantly—through blood, lymph, tears, sweat, menstrual fluid. These movements keep us alive, regulate temperature, allow us to heal, to feel, to procreate. Block or reroute them, and the system collapses. The same happens to the planet: when rivers are dammed, lakes emptied, seas rerouted, or waters relocated, the circulatory system of Earth is disturbed, breaking the balance between all living systems.

On stage, this idea unfolds through the artistic visions of choreographer Simona Deaconescu, visual artist Ioana Vreme Moser, and sound artist Simina Oprescu, embodied by four performers. They move within haunted landscapes shaped by transparent, glass-and-tubing sculptures that circulate streams of water. These hybrid instruments—part organ, part machine—act as a fluid computer, where every loop, blockage, and redirection generates sound. Sometimes the dancers trigger the streams; other times, the streams dictate their movement.

Shifting between micro and macro perspectives, the performance zooms in on the saline fluids in our veins and zooms out to altered rivers, ports, and deep seas, imagining a speculative future hydrological cycle in which humans learn not to control water, but to move with it.

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