TUNING
Clarinde Wesselink (
www.clarindewesselink.com)
Master research presentation
DAS Choreography
September 2024
Tuning is a site-specific performance that converge the synergy of an ecosystem. In this work, I illuminate the interplay between humans and their more-than-human counterparts and reveal the latent complexity of an ecosystem through fleeting structures and shared rhythms.
Central to Tuning is a deconstruction of time, where I challenge the rigid constraints of clock time. I explore questions about how we experience time through the rhythms of our interactions with the world, thus exposing the fiction of collectively agreed temporal constructs. My fascination with the body's reflexes, subtle shivers, startles, itches, leads to a choreography that unveils what lies beneath our immediate perception.
The process in Tuning is rooted in embracing fragmentation, reflecting the autistic experience of the world as a series of disjointed moments rather than a cohesive whole. In Tuning, I create a choreography where things appear and disappear unexpectedly, making visible the hidden movements of our bodies in response to the environment. My work invites us to consider the myriad timelines that coexist within a space and to imagine an alternative world where diverse rhythms of life are acknowledged.
Tuning premiered on September 3rd at 6:00 am in the morning, at DAS Choreography, Amsterdam.
CreditsDancers: Clotilde Cappelletti, Lily Kiara, Edward Loyd, Maria Mavridou, Valeria Primonts, Leandro Souza, Clarinde Wesselink Music: Kristoffer Lislegaard
Production: Lynn Gommes
Advisors: Eva Karczag, Dana Caspersen, Susan Leigh Foster, Janna-Camilla Lyster, Suzan Tunca
Special Thanks: Anne van Balen, My peers at DAS Choreography, and the Master’s Choreography program at the National Academy of Arts, Oslo.
This project would never have been possible without the invaluable support of the Cultural Fund, Mondriaan Fund, and the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts. We are deeply grateful for their contribution.