F A L L I N G

The word falling holds many contradictions: holding and letting go, descending and rising, losing control and surrendering to it. 

We fall from heights, into places, into love, out of love, into sleep, into memory.

This work gathers the many meanings contained within the word and translates them into a shared physical language.

Inside falling lives a quiet sense of nostalgia. Martina uses this space to grieve the end of a love story —
not only the loss itself, but the echo it leaves behind.

“Falling for you, with you — it wasn’t easy, but it was easy to learn you.”

Even what was not directly touching me still moved through me.

Anything you felt, I could feel too.

If you fall, I will feel it too.

 

 




It brought me back to peace and caos at the same time.

It wasn’t easy but I learned a lot. It wasn’t easy to learn.

But so easy

to learn you.

And I, sideways,

got the light without burning.

A place where the sun doesn’t shine directly, and indirectly,

yet I was the center.

Choreography and concept: Martina Di Giulio
Music: Massive Attack, Krista Marina, A Winged Victory of the Sullen
Music arrangment: Vinzent Bode
Costumes: Martina Di Giulio / Björn Hotes
Video: James Nix
Dancers: Garance Vignes, Davide Cesari, Diego Urdangarin
Light design: Philipp Sonnhoff / Martina Di Giulio
Pictures: Lukasz Lawicki / Martina Di Giulio