Not my bones
“The performance NOT MY BONES explores the memory of bones through the human body as both object and method. Using the body and its representations to investigate hierarchy, time, space, gender, and sexuality, the performance explores bodies that experience forced transformations, re-imagining a resistant relationship between body and nurture (rhythm).”
(Tendai Malvine Makurumbandi, choreographer)
Choreography Tendai Makurumbandi
Costume Design & Scenography Peny Spanou
Dance Synne Erichsen, Kamilla Moen, Ole Marius Støle
Music composition Mikkel Alvheim Åse, Mentosh Jerahuni
Year 2024
This project starts with another fundamental element of human physicality, the bones. The process as well as the ideas are bringing associations, contrasts, and connections with the project Displaced Shadows. Throughout human history, bones have been not only associated with death but also with life. Human ephemeral bodies carry the bones, live with them, write their stories on them, and leave them to continue their journey into nature.
The costume and space journey follows a transformation similar to the Shamanistic ceremony, where rebirth is the desired experience. Using simple materials from nature, wood, and soil, combined with human-made objects that bring memories of the bone structure and texture, the space is becoming a ceremony itself. The performers become the bones, passing from the state of the skeleton to a spiritual state until they become completely alive bodies.
The human femur is the longest, strongest and heaviest bone in the body. It is attached to the largest muscle in the body, and these robust musculoskeletal structures allow humans to stand, run and jump on two legs.
Reference https://corporisfabrica.tumblr.com/post/100413460048/the-human-femur-is-the-longest-strongest-and
