Choreography in the swimming pool: Dragon … explores togetherness, ritual and difference.
A dragon that refuses to smile, a body that falls apart and puts itself together again, six swimmers that embody a fluid community - Dragon, rest your head on the seabedplays out on the surface of a swimming pool that acts as both stage and screen.
During the opening week of EUROPALIA ESPAÑA we leave our familiar halls and head to Wezenberg Olympic Swimming Centre, next door to the arts campus. There this choreography - which balances between dance, sport and speculative fiction - truly comes into its own.
Dragon, rest your head on the seabedis part of the series Dragon Pieces, in which Pablo Lilienfeld and Federico Vladimir explore alternative forms of collectivity. Artistic swimming and other ritual or playful group practices - from synchronisation to role playing games - challenge ideas about identity, togetherness and difference. A radical representation of what is possible together.