A costume made out of hundreds of plastic bags, that my grandmother collected at the supermarket and kept for many years. 

 

This piece questions our relationship to pollution - environmental, but also noise, visual or mental pollution. It started with the desire to create dance from a costume, with its potentials and its limitations, instead of considering the costume as an additional prop to the dance piece. How a certain cloth could influence how a body will move? How could a restrictive costume help me to go beyond my creative practice and refresh my way of making dance? Trapped in this plasticized chaos, my body tries to find its pathways. Sometimes resistant, sometimes overwhelmed, it gets carried by its own wastes. Its fragile and transient human nature is opposed to the timelessness of its shell. It reflects how the society is evolving with the overproduction of plastic which impacts the eco-system. The spectators can’t see precisely the movements of the body as the plastic bags are floating around and blurry the body’s shape. 

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With the support of NSCD - Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Leeds (UK)

Performed at Riley Theater, Leeds (UK) in March 2019​

Pictures: Victoria Nash