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This is a solo performance in which a dancer explores her own body, recently injured. To do this, she turns to the phenomenon of blue in the history of art and pop culture, attempting to find common points that creators return to time and again. She uses the discoveries in these materials to explore her own new body. Some of the key techniques include the form of an essay and the search for blue, taken from Maggie Nelson's book, in which she breaks down her blue depression into 240 pieces. This leads to a deconstruction technique that applies to various components of the performance: deconstructing her own body, breaking it down into video projections, cutting through space, rearranging sound – the performer faces the impossibility of altering time. The linearity of time that the performance flirts with remains an unyielding unit, developing independently of the actions of the audience and the performer. The category of time is illuminated beyond the stage: in the search for blue, in muscle development exercises.

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