(Re)Current

We are carried through life by its irreversible flow, this current takes us through cycles of days, years or in some beliefs different incarnations. This Sibelius' composition is titled 'Laetare Anima Mea' ('My Soul Rejoices' in Latin), when souls rejoice together, even if it's short-lived, sometimes it is worth swimming against the stream to hold onto a moment that transcends this recurrent pattern of existence. The wave must go down to go up, we must go under to overcome, and as we ride on the very crest of this instant, on the crescendo of the current of life and the universe we cascade, dance and babble about as bubbles full but always ready to pop. 

 

 "I was inspired by the idea of a geometry of the stage, a torus-like shape that for me evokes how our lives are in a constant state of becoming and fading away. Using this shape for the floor pattern the dancers follow it around like a current bringing them together and separating them multiple times. The chaotic motions of water, as well as its cyclical patterns, are present in the flowing movement that drives the dancers on, and when they meet they either seem to take flight like migrating birds or their brief union is symbolized in rippling symmetry that soon drifts apart."

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The duet was premiered in 2022 at Dortmund ballet's International Gala and has been performed around Europe at various gala events by Matthew and Mayara. It was featured in BBC Dance Passions Liverpool  2023.

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All of the waves and waters hastened, suffering, towards goals, many goals, to the waterfall, to the sea, to the current, to the ocean and all goals were reached and each one was succeeded by another. The water turned into vapour and rose, became rain and came down again, became spring, brook and river, changed anew, flowed anew.

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Siddhartha, Herman Hesse