-FLIPBOOK-

Hello everyone, good afternoon. I'm here because I made a solo… 

Am I allowed to call it a solo?

It is hanging around in this room… 

But what if the movement is not mine? What if there is only my body, but is the other's movements that make me bee in motion? your movement is what creates mine; you decide the speed, the pauses the fluidity…

and I will guide you through it...

But then, what’s the solo?

I made it; it’s there, hanging in this room. 

And this? Isn’t it the solo also?

-BE BEE-

Wait, but beefore I want to say some things about honey bees.

We are not the best, we are not the smartest, and we are not the kings, the queen is there outside, flying, dancing, making the world work, beeing part of a community, creating life. Maybee, we have a hang-up, humans have always wanted to be like bees, so let's be bees, no? Let’s cooperate, let's dance, let's create something together, and let's smell flowers. Let's just be bees.

As you might know, bees are fascinating in so many ways, but I will focus on their way of communicating. They dance, but not like us; instead of talking, they move their bodies to transmit information. It is their language, their way to say “here” or “there”. They create some kinds of little choreographies, and then they perform them. They perform them to say something to the group… quite cool, isn't it?

I’ve been researching it, and exploring how this language could bee translated into a human body, and I would like to share it with you today.

Let’s copy bees; let's copy nature instead of controlling it.

“According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way that a bee should be able to fly. The bee, of course, flies anyway, because bees don't care what humans think is impossible.” - Simon J. Smith, Steve Hickner-

-FLOWERS-

And that's what they basically need—to share where the flowers are. And that's exactly what I need today—to share with you my flowers.

They grow, but upside-down, like everything here today. Humans beeing bees, a solo beeing a group piece, a performance in the present beeing something from the past, a body that moves because of other bodies' movement. 

Can you smell them? Is the smell of these flowers moving? Is it dancing? Does lavender caress you? Does cumin awaken you? Does Honeysuckle feel like a big choir? Does fennel intrigue you? Does Rosemary transport you to your grandmother's house?

So now I will invite you to imagine you are a bee and follow my movements as bees would do.

But also, feel free to stay outside and enjoy watching this big hive.

✴︎ 20 min

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Created and performed by Irene Rojo and generation XIV | Mentored by Christine de Smedt

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