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Swans For Play is a voyeuristic experience. An experience of something intense. Something a viewer might want to become a part of but is only allowed to witness from the margins. What happens is never fully given. It stays suspended between what is visible and what is imagined. Like sapphic seduction, the work remains soft and subtle, almost invisible, yet charged and dangerous, like sitting in a car just before it crashes.
I pretend not to see you, though I am aware. I feel you before I see you.
In Swans For Play, Emma Bertuchoz, together with dancer Alina Arshi and musician Giuliana Gjorgjevski, explores a dynamic between two protagonists who irresistibly desire each other. The piece unfolds in four acts, moving between what is genuine and what is performed, between what remains implicit and what becomes explicit. They approach and step back, moving between human, deer, and swan.
Extending the intimacy of Emma’s work, Moving Discourse is delighted to shares her personal notes, letting us follow the process of imagining a stage where desire can grow. These notes mix playful observations, scores for improvisation, and reflections on making costumes—a gesture of love. Central to the work isthe intimate process of makingshoes for her co-performer, describing to us how, by moulding the other’s body, she moulds her desire.