‘Ola Maciejewska: The Second Body’

On stage, a body and a block of ice: one, a complex organism made of muscles, bones and veins, 80% of which is liquid; the other, made of frozen tap water. Neither a duet – nor a solo – The Second Body by Ola Maciejewska invites us to witness the permeability of these two bodies of water in constant metamorphosis.

It’s a manifesto on dependence, scales, radical exteriority, and limits, affirming the immediacy and beauty of felt experience.

Ola Maciejewska takes Daisy Hildyard’s The Second Body as a starting point to connect with the troubling questions of the human disruption of climate and ecology. In this narrative, human beings have two bodies – one tangible, made of flesh and bone, and another, more diffuse, involved in a network of exchanges with other ecosystems.

Intrigued by this ambivalence, Ola Maciejewska explores the dissolving of the boundaries between object and subject, animate and inanimate, to the point where we can observe the choreographic process of matter and bodies becoming interrelated and co-dependent.

Conception, choreography, artistic direction: Ola Maciejewska
Performed by: Leah Marojević
Dance construction (form in ice) in collaboration with: Alix Boillot
Dramaturgy in collaboration with: Gilles Amalvi
Prototype and mold: Mathieu Peyroulet Ghilini
Stage assistance: Guenaël Morvan