Mutant landscapes: processes of (de)composition in dance

Abstract

This article is based on the practices developed during the Mutant Landscapes Artistic Residency, held at Casa do Lago at Unicamp and belonging to the Extension Project Poetics of the body in pandemic landscapes: creating communities to revive affections with the city. Held between May and June 2022, the residency sought inspiration in the dystopian landscape images
from the film Stalker (1979), by Andrei Tarkovsky, in order to research how it would be possible to develop a contextual dance research from the ruins caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and a political context of destruction. By researching the landscapes through three qualities of movement - Body-Plant, Body-Basement, and Body-Contagion - some (de)composition practices
in dance were carried out, seeking to dig over what has decayed, accepting the precariousness condition and weaving cooperation networks among different beings.