Spirit Dance

This piece was born from witnessing how collective memory lives in the body. I worked with elders from port cities, studying how their hands remembered rope knots and mending nets even when their minds faltered. The performance transforms an abandoned warehouse into a vessel of living history. Participants are given salt-worn tools to activate sound installations – a hammer on rusted hull plating becomes a drum, weaving needles trigger harmonic vibrations in copper wires. As stories of shipbuilders and fishmongers echo through the space, the audience collaborates in building a communal sculpture from maritime debris. The work doesn’t recreate tradition, but revives the act of remembering together through tactile, shared ceremony.