On Both Sides is a collaboration with the BA students at the Danish National School for Performing Art in Copenhagen which took place in the autumn of 2022.

At the beginning there is a need to take care of what is not here (yet or anymore).

To take care of what is gone or not yet arrived we approach memories and anticipations through an act of imagination. We give space, time and attention to those by dancing and the dance is the encounter with what we evoke.

The act of imagination becomes an act of remembering, understood as an individual as well as a common practice that underlines the connection between the sensitivity of the body and the sensitivity of the thoughts.

It is more than revisiting the past, it is to commit to a multi-layered present that contains both past and future, or even infinite possible pasts and futures. A memory is in then not a static picture from the past but a living organism in the middle of a ever changing time. A memory changes and has future potential. A memory can be shared and is a collective journey. A memory is evoked and is then a place, a frame, a score.

In this perspective repetition becomes important as the negotiation between the unachievable desire to revisit the fluctuant and the awareness of a possible relationship based on a radical presence to what present is not.

Premiere at The Danish National School for Performing Arts, Copenhagen, November 2022

Choreography: Alice Martucci
Muisc: Jaleh Negari

Dance: Anita Czakó, Aikaterini Dimitrelli. Vilma Ehnberg, Paavali Kärkkäinen, Neža Kokalj.