OPIA

OPIA

 

Please find English translations of the texts spoken in the performance below.

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1. Episode

In the first episode the dancer looks inside and observes her moving body.
While moving she verbalises her corporeal sensations that are not visible to the viewer’s eye.

For example:

Tight eye

Wooden vertebrae

Curious soles of the feet

Meaty pelvis

Vast skin

During the episode the dancer shifts from observing her internal world towards drawing a mental image of her surroundings with the help of the echo of the sound of her voice.

 

 

2. Episode 

 

Four

wide

surfaces all the same

far from one another.

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30

full surfaces

120 feet

pressing lazily against the floor.

holding up the one who is sitting

the trembling horizon itches

a spacious time

on the edges.

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60 lines

drilling

into the spine

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a wave-like pulse

where the mind

The surge of a spacious space sucks in

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Echoing expectations on my skin

a dense pressure in my limbs

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lines that dodge

25 full ones 5 empty ones

 

100 feet

pressing lazily against the floor.

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a trembling vertical

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50 lines

pierce deep into the spine

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A creeping indifference… floats

an apparent fellowship

Out of 25 empty and cold ones there are 21 left.

 

84 feet

drilling lazily into the floor.

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a tight chest

words that drown in emptiness disappearing

heavy bones criss-crossing

Lazily towards

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24 cold lines.

22…20…16 left.

closing

disappearing

leaving

hiding

14.

14

tired lines

drilling into the spine

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a need for safety

a hope for what’s to come

 

27 empty surfaces

3 full ones

2

1

 

2 steady lines

Your gaze drilling into my spine

4 feet heavy against the floor

Your body heavy against the surface where you sit

 

Your gaze drilling into my spine

4 feet heavy against the floor

A full spine

An echoing emptiness

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Capable

Quick

Tender

Trustworthy

Enchanting

Full

Free

Confident

Strong

Capable

Me