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Shall we speak of SOFT LANDINGS?

It is a marvellous glint of a world. The abyss of the birds is now an abyss of people I love. Satellites and many constellations forming at once, attempting to move closer, even in a time when closeness is a remembrance. I find this to be like a capillary structure – small collisions, long lines of shared cadence, bodies in detail. The capillary, one cell thick, is a site of exchange, transfer and collection. It is a marvellous glint of a world: we are inside a giant soft-walled capillary, breathing, and we are as they are: sites of collection, transfer and exchange.

Freedom and flight
– optimism –

An agreement that I will be here (beating) and the dancing, she will be

- Here –   on the other side. 
We are speaking of
continuing the work,
and this is the dancing,
for today.

10 July 2020

She: Camperdown apartment, Sydney, NSW
I: House in Seddon, Melbourne, VIC

A taste like bananas that errs toward parched
A hand captured by a circle
The troughs and peaks of sense in a conversation
The alarm of voice
A place known only by the imagination
A conversation about practicalities
The people here in this conversation
You and me and others
One flower dying, two blooming
A new state of lock down intuited
The wetness of yesterday’s bitumen
A redness at the attachment
An inbreath that doesn't leave at the thought of the future
The pleasure of the hard and the real and the over there
A full and swollen timeframe
Having edited it and made it public
and waiting for the difference that talks back
Anticipating a dismantled meeting
And making encounters for already dismantled meeting points.
It shoots up and bifurcates
Just like it knew what the future held.
They mope like dancing has gone cold.
The distances have changed in length, literally.

Excerpt:
'A different kind of saturation'

RHIANNON is an Australian dancer and choreographer who grew up in Kempsey in regional NSW. Her artistic work draws attention to bodies’ involvement in dynamic webs of relation with the world. Choreographies such as Long Sentences (Baltic Circle Festival, Helsinki 2019); Place Without Form (Trois C-L, Luxembourg 2019); and We Make Each Other Up (Dancehouse, Melbourne 2018), emphasise a sense of interdependence between humans and their environment. From her base in Sydney, NSW she makes contributions to the community through choreography, performance, collaboration and curation, leading the artist-run venue, ReadyMade Works, and platforms, Talking Bodies and First Run Sydney.