Our Arms Grew Together

is a live self-portrait of the love relationship between the couple Marta & Kim. In a world that celebrates independence, they choose deliberately for interdependency. 

Marta & Kim are in search of physical metaphors for their relationship. This unfolds in an intimate, honest, almost documentary universe of what normally stays behind closed doors: the sensuality and vulnerability of becoming one body with two people. At the same time, it shows the discomfort of it: literally not being able to walk away from each other and letting go of control and personal agenda. 

If ‘trusting you with my life’ is not only a metaphor, but a physical reality, then everything that is at stake becomes tangible. Do we dare to lose ourselves in a joint identity and depend on each other? 

Photo by Paul Sixta

 

Credits:

Concept, Choreography & Performance: Marta Alstadsæter & Kim-Jomi Fischer

Music: Rutger Zuydervelt (Machinefabriek)

Mastering: Marlon Wolterink

Light design, video & technique: Loes Schakenbos

Dramaturgy: Marc Maris

Assistant choreography: Heleen van Gigch

Publicity image: Paul Sixta

Trailer: Paul Sixta

Co-produced by: DansateliersFestival Circolo

Financially supported by: Gemeente Rotterdam, Fonds Podiumkunsten, Fonds 21, Dioraphte

 

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