Anna Persson

Mountainbuilding examines the interface between stone, rock, mountain and human existence, skin and crust, organic and inorganic, human and nature in order to explore the human body’s ability to create change, and by using geological (transformative) processes as a choreographic method Mountainbuilding reevaluates the relationship between human and non-human existence.

By using the materiality of mountain formation as a method, Mountainbuilding pushes human existence to its limit, through close encounters with disorienting promises of scale, time, memory and creation. With the weight of millions of years forming its constitution, stone, rock, and mountain compel us to understand our limited lifespan, a multifaceted realisation where alliance, continuity, and mutual participation are favoured over human exceptionalism. The work embraces the dancer’s ability to integrate and coexist with logics other than her own, and proposes a playful submission to lithic time as a way forward in times of political and ecological crisis.