To Rest on a Slope

Danya Hammound is a choreographer-explorer. Her works investigate the body as a site of inscription for collective memory, eternal exploration, tragedy, and poetry. She achieves something that few choreographers can pull off: she gives the viewer space to think about the body, that constant companion which we often ignore entirely. Each of her works is a continuation of the one before, both in their exploration of movement and it their thematic obsessions. Through the material existence of the body, she attempts to give substance to all other elements that make up a human being.

This performance piece makes visible the states of the human body in search of rest. And yet, its innate ambition puts it continually in a state of tension, compelling it to rise, to move, to confront. This state of tension gives substance to every aspect and detail of the movement, creating a landscape where time stops, making room for the viewer to be and think.