In the dark water where bodies collapse, all that remains is the lullaby

"In the dark water where bodies collapse, all that remains is the lullaby" is a contemporary dance performance that plunges into the depths of the Inuit story of the Skeleton Woman. This tale tells of a woman cast into the sea, her flesh consumed until only a skeleton remains, who is later hauled to the surface by a fisherman. Through a night of terror, untangling, and a shared tear, she is miraculously re-clothed in flesh, transforming a story of abandonment into one of profound symbiosis.

Our performance translates this powerful myth into a visceral, non-linear landscape. It is a world where flesh dissolves into currents, lullabies hum through the depths, and the human form surrenders to the pull of the unseen. The piece unravels the dancing body as both wreckage and rebirth, choreographing the liminal space between decomposition and reanimation. It asks: How does a body carry a story that is disappearing?

Co-creators and performers Sofia Filippou and Silvia Marazzi