In a series of documented intuitive movements and body language mapping, weight/resilience explores how conceptual thought is translated into gesture. Like a tree bending from the weight of the snow, emotional baggage can be felt and experienced through the body. This artistic research presents a new perspective to a psychological phenomenon where the physical body carries the weight of emotional trauma.
The research was conducted as an introspective process, where the artist became the tool, the media and the end result. What's left on paper is a transcribed choreography, markings of a passed bodily experience. Investigation through movement, motion and non-linguistic notetaking. What does it feel like to carry a weight or to be released from it?
All photos: Sonja Dallyn