The images were made during performance, working with long shutter speeds in the stage light. The lighting design for this piece is built on flicker: strobe-like bursts that make movement stutter and blur in the same frame. A long exposure catches the body mid-transition, the limbs trailing, the torso already somewhere else. What you get is not a frozen moment but a record of duration the movement itself made visible as a smear of time.
That quality felt right for the piece. The choreography is about impulse, about the body doing something before the mind has decided to. A sharp image would lie about that. The blur is the truth of it.
Call of The Void is a piece by choreographer Nicole Neidert, commissioned by Dansenshus Stockholm. The title comes from the French concept of l'appel du vide, the inexplicable urge, when standing at a height, to jump. Neidert builds her work around exactly these kinds of involuntary impulses: the body acting before the mind has consented.
