This lecture moves through a series of works shaped by doubt, exhaustion, appropriation, and refusal. It begins with a personal crisis—the loss of desire to dance—and unfolds into a reflection on the political and poetic implications of movement and stillness. Drawing on choreographic references from the 1990s to today, it looks at how bodies carry histories, how gestures are transmitted, and how performance can operate as a form of thinking.
Blending storytelling, critical thought, and moments of reenactment, the lecture considers choreography not only as a structure for organizing movement, but as a way of staging questions: How to dance when dancing feels impossible? How to speak from the body, and how to listen through form? What does it mean to borrow, to copy, to transmit? And where does choreography end—if it ever does?