Abigail Aleksander & Mary Szydłowska: SKINFOLD

Dance & Performance: SKINFOLD

Fri 09. & Sat 10.05., 19.30h, Premiere, Raktete Festival 2025

Dismantling the compartmentalisation of the body, "SKINFOLD" is a choreographic disintegration of flesh and form. Influenced by Monique Wittig’s "The Lesbian Body", which cleaves language open in its radical re-envisioning of flesh, "SKINFOLD" undoes the rigid frameworks of bodily perception and felt sense. This is not a performance of arrival nor an attempt to transcend. By liquefying the hardened forms imposed by expectation and identity, "SKINFOLD" fractures the conventional grammar of the body, creating something mercurial, transforming it into a mutable terrain where familiar forms collapse into fluid ambiguity. Skin folds into itself, limbs blur boundaries, and what once seemed stable becomes something beautifully unknown.