To Fall with Grace

To fall with grace is a work that depicts the unseen processes and effects of human
interventions in the underwater environment. A group of synchronised swimmers -
performs outside their “natural” environment and interacts with the urban surroundings. The
dancers are expected to make elaborate moves, through an unnatural choreography, as well
as master and emphasise their breath control. The audience is oblivious to how these aquatic
lifeforms got here in the first place. Unable to communicate or coordinate their movement.
The dance appears ungraceful, repetitive, and spasmodic to the audience. However, it is part
of their professional training routine: elaborate, coordinated, elegant, when performed in
water. But in the dry urban environment, the dancer will look totally out of place, like a fish on
dry land. With their gestures, patterns and rhythms they create a physical vocabulary of
suffocation, disorientation and despair, an allegory of the urbanised oceans.