at AADK SPAIN

2025

concept/

choreography

Julia Flux

ONGOING

Staring at the sun is the 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 heliogenic futures.

Positioned between somatic practice, speculative ecology, and mystic traditions of solar attunement, the research explores how the body might function as a receptive and transmitting surface for solar forces. Through slow, durational movement scores, performers orient themselves toward the sun—rotating, aligning, exposing, and withdrawing—allowing warmth, light, and rhythm to shape gesture and duration.

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 in the conventional sense than as a practice of tuning, where performers inhabit thresholds between stillness and motion, absorption and emission, forming temporary constellations that echo the quiet architectures of solar panels or ritual assemblies.

Currently in a choreographic development phase, the work treats dance as a speculative method—an embodied inquiry into how solar forces might be sensed, shared, and collectively held, opening space for imaginaries of solar futures grounded in reciprocity, care, and more-than-human perception