THIS IS NOT (an act of love & resistance) is a musical and choreographic piece for nine performers, including four brass musicians and five dancers. From a feminist perspective, the piece conveys different imaginary worlds around air, through dance, music and the rhythm of speech. How do we generate energy through this element, and what does it mean to breathe together today? If air were a harbinger of things to come, what imaginings and representations of the future would it bring? Here, air is imagined as a container for traces and resonances, an element of interdependence between bodies, a canvas for creating a choreographic mesh. The traces that sounds and movements leave in the air become material for the composition of multiple fictions.

THIS IS NOT (an act of love & resistance) is a cyclical piece built around shared and singular trajectories, correspondences, ruptures and polyrhythms.

In this piece, bodies pulse, insist and repeat like the act of breathing itself. The group perseveres, creating invisible links through the air with the plastic, luminous and sonic environment. The latter consists of a hybrid music composed of acoustic sounds inspired by Brass Bands and electronic atmospheres.

Here, we become air workers. We celebrate it. We mobilize it as it mobilizes us, creating invisible currents, whirlpools and waterfalls. We become extensions of the other, projections of ourselves.

‍Aina Alegre ^{(March 2023)}