at AADK SPAIN

2025

concept/

choreography

Julia Flux

ONGOING

Staring at the sun is Flux latest solo and group choreographic dance piece -

emerging from a whole cosmology.

initiated during a residency at AADK Spain, where the first movement studies were developed in dialogue with the desert’s solar intensities. The project continues to evolve as an open choreographic investigation into solar presence, posthuman sensuality, and feminist speculation.

Positioned between somatic practice, speculative ecology, and mystic traditions of solar attunement, the research explores how the body might function as technology itself. Through durational movement scores, performers orient themselves toward the sun—rotating, aligning, exposing, and withdrawing..

Within these scores, the body is approached as an energetic field: a porous constellation of sensations, electromagnetic resonances, and subtle perceptions. Movement emerges less as choreography rather than as a practice of tuning. the work treats dance as a speculative method—centering life giving forces.

Resonance is an evolving performance collaboration between Julia Flux and UOrem, first developed during the Dream Baby exhibition at TAC Berlin. Emerging through open improvisational research, the work explores tension, collapse, and practices of care as entry points for deconstructing movement and relational perception.

Body and instrument are approached as reciprocal sensing systems — playing, resisting, and tuning one another through touch, frequency, and energetic exchange. Rooted in instant composition, the performance unfolds as a living negotiation between sonic texture and physical response, where choreography emerges from listening rather than control.

Culminating in a free improvisational dialogue between movement and sound, Resonance inhabits a shifting field of intimacy and instability, dissolving distinctions between performer, instrument, and atmosphere.

Beyond the Pull of the Sun is a 15-minute performance emerging from the ongoing Butoh research Sensual Animals with Spiritual Flesh — a choreographic investigation into the body as spiritual matter: animal, porous, and entangled. Rooted in Butoh and infused with the emotional physicality of Martha Graham, the work unfolds through states of radical intimacy, transmutation, and post-human sensuality.

First presented during Raw Butoh Night at Studio dB, the piece treats flesh as a sensing interface shaped by weight, friction, breath, salinity, and pressure. Each danced site becomes an active collaborator, generating invisible choreographies that destabilize habitual structures and loosen anthropocentric orientation.

The performance culminates in a series of collectively embodied “Shapes of Post-Human Sensuality” — transient physical states that move the body beyond fixed identity and toward new forms of intra-being.