Brick Ballet
Video
Collaboration with Evangelia Moschou and Chrysa Mpampa
Beneath every street we walk on lies the invisible work of the bodies that made the bricks and the hands that placed them in walls or on the ground. We move across these surfaces every day, but we rarely stop to consider the weight of that history beneath our feet.
This raises the question: what does it mean to truly “get in touch” with a brick?
By attaching bricks to the feet of a dancer, the material becomes an extension of the body. The brick meets the street and becomes a tool for marking and sounding the city. This work invites audiences to experience brick in a unique way through seeing and hearing. The dancer moves through the urban space and feels the weight and resistance of the bricks with every step. Moving takes effort. Grace becomes struggle.
With this work, Hosseini and Moschou aim to bring material and body closer together and let us feel what it means to carry bricks in another way.
