DEVIKA BILIMORIA

This work is an exercise in temporal weaving, relational gestures and ephemeral elongation from site responsive choreographies recorded within a static frame. Practiced at Koonya Beach on Boon Wurrung Country in so-called Australia, this work emphasises the inextricable interconnectedness of earth and body whilst inciting troubles of territory, the 'human', migration, and identification through inverted forms. It belongs to a series of body/earth movement explorations of somatic listening and improvisational response, where I attempt to embody sites that I momentarily encounter to elongate my experience and understanding of that site and its materials. My digitally multiplied body amid temporalities of sandstone and sky evokes a charged nexus of body/earth, nature/culture and ingestion/projection, where a inversion elicits a tension in the notion of an edge. The choreography begins and ends with a short movement sequence that pays homage to the earth, known as Namaskaram, from my training in a South Indian dance form Bharatanatayam . Throughout, the body shifts between deep-time listening postures and improvised movement with sensorial attention.