What has been stored

What Has Been Stored is a choreographic project by Jimena Pérez Salerno that explores the voice as a storage. Drawing on early-life sonic memories through lullabies, rocking rhythms, and vocal and physical explorations, the work approaches these as fragile yet powerful forms of care.

Lullabies inhabit thresholds between inside and outside, wakefulness and sleep, the uncanny and the peaceful. They emerge as carriers of affection and transmission of knowledge across generations, cultures, and geographies, while also holding fears, frustrations, social tensions, rhythms of rescue and promises of the future. Both intimate and anonymous, lullabies hold a central paradox: who is caring for whom? What does it mean to care and to be cared for through sound?

The project invites a dialogue between these early sounds and the adult self, becoming a shared space for collective listening that acknowledges the absences, memories, and lives that precede and follow us.