Ninfa Atlas
Score from which to create an expanded choreography

Performing the Archive. I created the following score by selecting seventy-two Ninfa figures from Warburg’s archive of images, identified across several of the panels of the Atlas. The figures are cut out, re-ordered thematically (see index) and pasted on a chroma green backdrop. They act as ciphers from which one can draw and make new meanings.

This score is a prompt to expand and diversify the Atlas, to respond to the contemporary context of re-emerging gestures, and to re-assign their transmission. Working from associative relation-ships to these cut out figures, performers are invited to take possession of them and invest them through their personal experience, research, and movement aesthetic. Performers reflect, modify, contest, and invent gestures as a way to perform and extend the archive.