all images copyright of Kali van der Merwe
Kali van der Merwe in collaboration with Valentina Leo
Matter spins its atomic dance in and all around us. Creation myths speak about dance sending pulse waves to awaken matter from its inert state. Dancing sustains the universe. Sound and rhythm is the truth around which all of creation dances. Life is constant movement, creating individuality. The same force that brings everything into being, reverses the dance and sucks everything back into itself again, converting the manifest unique back into united stillness and nothingness from where everything begins again. Death is perceived as ‘other’ yet it is part of the self, the vast emptiness in all matter, the reverse spin in our atoms, the inherent decay in living forms, death is in all change.
We dance daily with our death, our twin, as we live our lives. This is the unending flirtatious dance of life, death and rebirth in constant recycle.
dance
Valentina Leo
camera
Kali van der Merwe
editing
Kali van der Merwe
soundscapes
Kali van der Merwe
voice
Valentina Leo
other and self
running time: 9 min : 15 seconds