"Landform(s)" is a contemporary dance work exploring the dialogue between the unseen forces of nature and the human body. Inspired by tectonic movements and the evolution of landscapes, the work reflects changes that, while imperceptible on the human timescale, accumulate over vast periods. Through the medium of the human body, the dance compresses these seemingly slow, invisible processes into moments of expression, revealing the limits of our perception of time and the complexity of that experience.

Each movement of the dancers mirrors the collision and shifting of tectonic plates, embodying the intense yet invisible transformations within nature. While the changes in landscapes take thousands, if not millions, of years to unfold, the dance captures these shifts within fleeting moments, allowing the audience to feel the compression of time from the unseen to the tangible. This limitation of the body in perceiving time is both a boundary and a shared space of empathy between individuals.

"Landform(s)" does not offer clear answers, but rather invites the audience to experience those distant transformations unveiled in an instant, discovering, in the process, a subtle and undefined connection between nature and the self.

Choreographer: Shang-Jen Yuan 袁尚仁
Performers: Constanze Hartl, Dayana Cattaldo, Erika Cattaldo, Maia Elena Cojocaru, Maria Novac, Miriam Schmid, and Victoria Wondrak
Music: "Exurgency" by Zoë Keating
Costume Designer: Cristina Uta

Premiered at Spotlight 2024