CREATION
Mami Wata is a goddess of water, a figure from the depths of night, of power and sexuality. A stranded mermaid who faces people watching her. She jumps. The jump that goes through her is a vertical jump, a regular one. The Latin word to say « to
dance » is saltare, from saltus, « the jump ». Creating dance from jumps as a persistence of an ancient gesture - perhaps universal? - a movement from the depths of a human being. Jump as a metaphor of a desire, a search for pleasure. A desire of pleasure. A desire for other, a desire for another, for what we do not have, for what we are not. Jump to exult. Jump to expel. Jump to endure. Jump to resist. Jump to reach. Jump to become. Jump to die. Jump to exist.
