This year, we turn toward water — the element that quietly shapes our bodies, landscapes, and ways of being together.

Philosopher Jolanta Brach-Czaina writes of a drop of water suspended for a moment before it falls. Such a delicate form, held together by tension and circumstance, asserting its brief presence. Watching it, we pause with a strange sense of recognition — accompanying its fragile existence, as if it carried a message.

After all, we too are mostly fluid. Beneath the skin’s appearance of solidity, water moves through every cell. When we turn our attention there, gravity is no longer an abstract force but something felt intimately — shaping tissues, guiding falling, rolling, landing.

In this year’s festival, we follow this quiet knowledge of the body. We explore dancing with gravity, sensing the inner currents that allow us to soften, yield, and reorganise – within ourselves, in duets and the wider dancing community.

Like water finding its path, the dance unfolds through attention and contact, shaping itself in the space between us.