Kosmokörper
Elisabete Finger
“Kosmokörper” invites the audience on a cosmic-anatomical journey through the inside of the human body. It is a search for a dance of the organs and body systems and their processes such as breathing, digesting, excreting, being ill, healing, dreaming and dying. Elisabete Finger has developed a choreography that sets the body’s activities in motion and allows them to emerge.
What happens when, in the course of this energetic dance that moves from the inside out, we encounter organs that have merged with plants and animals or breaths that take the form of clouds or whirlwinds? Are there cavities inside us that resemble black holes in space or liquids that flow like rivers? Do we also see garbage, plastic, waste there? What if we realize that we are feverish while the climate is changing, and we are fading while earthly landscapes are disappearing?
“Kosmokörper” encourages us to rethink the connections between inside and outside, part and whole, body and cosmos, and to search for an experience of ecology that takes place within ourselves.
This event takes place at the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden.
Duration: ca. 40 min. followed by an audience discussion and workshop
No use of language
Elisabete Finger is a brazilian choreographer and performer. Her creations investigate the materiality and anatomy of bodies and things, exposing textures, densities, forms, and fluids in situations that explore the borders between delight and disturbance. Through the contact-collision of different materials, she experiments logics guided by sensations and eroticisms, which often rub against meanings and social or cultural expectations.
Her recent work proposes unexpected encounters between very different partners, as a way to practice political ecologies, rehearsing other forms of empathy. She studied Law / Public Politics in Brazil, Dance and Choreography in different places such as the Essais program at CNDC d’Angers (France) and the MA SODA (UdK/HZT, Berlin). Since 2021 she is based in Berlin, maintaining ongoing collaborations in Brazil and other countries. Finger was a fellow of the Martin Roth Initiative 2021/2022, and in 2023 was a resident artist at Radialsystem, in the frame of Weltoffenes Berlin fellowship.
Directing and Choreography: Elisabete Finger
Light and Sound: MxM (Mirella Brandi X Muep Etmo)
Dance and Creation: Guilherme Morais, Caroline Alves
Choreographic Assistance: Sandro Amaral
Costume Consultation: Thelma Bonavita
Production: Corpo a Fora
Assistance and Image implementation : Kathleen Kunath
Images: @gigitachinardi & @attallah_+ arte Marcio Pontes
