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.

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. Absence becomes an entity that mediates movement, sound, and the interaction of the three bodies on the stage.

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

Flower as a metaphor of death, love, and change as an innate human experience, is not a novelty. Poets like Charles Baudelaire tirelessly explored this image. However, this melancholic object fulfills this piece as almost alive entities. And flowers become a corporeal reminder of memories that insist on blooming because, afterall, there is something about yellow flowers…

Developed by Colombian artists Natalia Vasco and Marino Ariza, A Flower for You 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.