Coletivo Penitente - There is something about yellow flowers p2p

There is something about yellow flowers that I simply love. They hold memories like quiet witnesses of time—moments, smiles, greetings, goodbyes, tears, and melancholy. Sometimes, I like to imagine I am one of them.

And then, there is the bird. It lingers in the periphery of my sight, weightless yet ever-present. Some days, I pretend not to see it. Some days, it sings.

Fragment of a writing exercise

There is something about yellow flowers is a dance-performance that explores mourning as both an emotional and physical landscape, using movement, voice, and visual elements to build a poem in movement.

The creative process of this piece has been shaped by the lived experiences of loss within the team, yet it extends beyond individual grief to explore how mourning is embodied collectively.

How to dance a loss? How to hear an absence? How to keep moving in grief?

This work-in-process delves into the universal experience of grief, not as a process of closure but as an ongoing state that transforms bodies, relationships, and spaces.

While absence becomes an entity that mediates the poetics of the three bodies on the stage, flowers become a corporeal reminder, as almost alive entities, of memories that insist on blooming because, afterall, there is something about yellow flowers…

As part of this project, a Somatic Workshop is offered by Nathalia Vasco on the 16th of June, 10h00 in the Kunstraum.

Developed by Colombian artists Natalia Vasco and Marino Ariza, There is something about yellow flowers has been shaped by a multicultural and interdisciplinary team: three dancers from Italy and Germany, Aurora Pollini, Eleonora Poles and Milla Matthews. With assistance from Jana Paim and sound by Max Weituschat.

Collaboration is at the core of this conceptual methodology, allowing the piece to evolve organically through collective research, discussions, and shared experiences.

This project is part of p2p Kunstraum, which is coordenated by Susanne Leeb and assistated by Litha Sabelfeldt. This performance is sponsored by the Studierendenwerk OstNiedersachsen.