The Weave

The Weave explores the connections between dance and textile art.

Emmilou Rössling - The Weave 16:9

The work oscillates between classical dance performance and immersive installation, considering choreography as an extended practice, especially in relation to textiles and their ability to emphasize or camouflage spatial organizations.

The Weave begins at the periphery of a discourse of identity, femininity and society and questions visibility in both the literal and metaphorical sense. It dives into different fabrics, materials, dances, phrases, felts and weaves and the philosophical implications of the single fibres relation to a larger structure, considering both fabric and dance making also as a practice of politics and democracy. Within this, camouflage becomes a multidimensional tool to complexify - it is a loophole which offers the possibility to temporarily lose oneself in order to preserve a sense of individuality.

By: Emmilou Rößling in collaboration with Rachell Bo Clark, Tarren Johnson & Maika Knoblich - Residency support: workspacebrussels

Residencies

02.12.2019 - 08.12.2019
workspacebrussels