The work Glacial Decay is part of a conceptual trilogy, consisting of the photographic portrait series 'Melting Bodies: Surface Tension', 'Melting Bodies' multi-screen choreographic-installation addressing melting ice, changing habitats and landscapes in the context of climate change, the Anthropocene and the aesthetics of the Cryosphere.
Glacial Decay describes the complex emotional states of climate change and its inherent existentialism, it takes up the thesis that western society has lost its relation to nature and its feeling for the natural world and thus has become empathetic as described by Gary Snyder in Lessons of the Wild, 2012. Throughout the choreography, an ongoing process of “softening and melting” is exercised and broken with. The temporal complexity of contemporary dance and embodiment is used as an aesthetic possibility to understand the body as an archive for climatic and social change.
Concept, Choreography and Sound: Kerstin Möller;
Dance and Choreography: Alice Gaspari, Mariko Koh, Petra Söör;
Stage and Costume Design: Minh Duc Pham; Production Assistance: Isabelle Wapnitz
Graphic Design: Benjamin Petersen
Photos: Karolina Sobel
This project will be made possible by the generous funding by Region Hannover, Stiftung Niedersachsen, Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur and Landeshauptstadt Hannover – Kulturbüro – Tanzfonds.
