In residency: Pontus Pettersson. The Hydra – A choreography in search of the essence of water.

Pontus Pettersson and Salad Hiilowle are currently working on the Hydra project in Weld’s studio.

In the darkness of the theater the monster sees its reflection on the ground. One body or more, why would it matter if we are all water? Hydra is a staging of the show. Where the camera points to the body and the director caught its tongue. In the middle of it all, in everything, a water practice. A molecular majority claims its right before the individual, perhaps before the language? Bodies that float and separate, an impossible hunt as choreographic practice, or is that just the way water dances? A floating subject that digs and dews, splashes and spills over the audience, like a water slide, and a spit in the face.

Hydra is a scenic and performative proposal on documentation, film, memory and gaze, a collaboration between Pontus Pettersson and Salad Hilowle, both with one leg in the visual arts and the other one in choreography as well as film. The Hydra is part of Pontus Petterssons extensive choreographic research project about water titled All Departures Are Waves.

With support by Weld, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee and Swedish Arts Council