"Poetry is connected to the image I create and to the reflection I develop," Nivine Kallas. (Credit: Pierre Gondard)
Where exactly is that tipping point of the mind, that slippery place in thought where the liberating mechanism of daydreaming sets in? Where is the precise location of dissociation from the body when it is constrained and contained? Using a cryptic language woven from gestures, mimes, undulations, and compulsive movements, Nivine Kallas presents with SāHO a visual metaphor for this dichotomy between confinement and its transcendence. Nivine Kallas creates a choreographic alphabet against a minimalist backdrop. (Credit: Pierre Gondard) Moving within an ultra-minimalist stage space, which she inhabits with mesmerizing intensity, she manages to create her own corporal language — with its own alphabet, grammar, syntagms, and prosody. In a sense, she becomes a creator of visual glyphs, with bodily refrains and a message to decipher — an...
Where exactly is that tipping point of the mind, that slippery place in thought where the liberating mechanism of daydreaming sets in? Where is the precise location of dissociation from the body when it is constrained and contained? Using a cryptic language woven from gestures, mimes, undulations, and compulsive movements, Nivine Kallas presents with SāHO a visual metaphor for this dichotomy between confinement and its transcendence. Nivine Kallas creates a choreographic alphabet against a minimalist backdrop. (Credit: Pierre Gondard) Moving within an ultra-minimalist stage space, which she inhabits with mesmerizing intensity, she manages to create her own corporal language — with its own alphabet, grammar, syntagms, and prosody. In a sense, she becomes a creator of visual glyphs, with bodily refrains and a message to decipher —...
