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Water Tongue is a performative practice that invites the performer to enter into dialogue with the visionary dimensions of nature through words, body, voice and images.

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The practice begins with the observation of water, its movements, states, rhythms, dynamics, colors. By observing water directly, or through visual and sonic materials, performers encounter the movements of seas and oceans, rivers and streams, waves, currents, puddles, rain, or the water of everyday life. These observations become physical and imaginative impulses: a current can become a character, turbulence a relationship, suspension a state of being, a wave a voice.

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In this practice, water is a code through which to read energetic narratives.

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Performers allow water dynamics to generate narratives, characters, voices, words and forms of language that do not necessarily belong to an already known or codified linguistic system.

In this sense, Water Tongue is an attempt to create a relationship with what we cannot fully name or define in nature: monsters, giants, microorganisms, imaginary creatures, inner and outer voices, and other forms of presence that emerge through the encounter between the performer and the more-than-human world.

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Water acts as a medium and a messenger. Its fluidity becomes a way of connecting the performer with a presence or energetic quality, allowing something from outside or within the body to take form. As water adapts to the body when we enter the sea, these presences can adapt to the performer’s body, voice and imagination.