Pol Pi
Variations on tenderness

Pol Pi and Nitsan Margaliot share common approaches, interests, and a shared work ethic: they work to bring intuition into the studio through somatic practices, they share a passion for working with archives and memory, and they embrace vulnerability as a space to connect with audiences. In this first collaboration, their dialogue will weave around the notion of tenderness.

What can this notion teach us about the ways we inhabit the world and our own bodies, about our human relationships, and our connections with living beings? What ethics can guide us in embracing the poetics of tenderness?

Through what they call the methodology of variation (in the musical sense, where a theme is repeated in modified forms), they will craft a performative dialogue based on the gradual transformation of choreographic materials emerging from this tenderness-territory—gestures, movements, or situations that are either new or drawn from archives.