The piece Let us be the second body, was created in 2021 as the degree project of Cilia Herrmann from the BA in Dance Performance at the Stockholm University of the Arts.

 It is about realizing interdependencies, in a search for political movement towards a non-violent way of relating with and within the world.

“I cannot be out of violence until the system that I am living in is, even though I am not the target of that violence.” is the starting declaration. 

I imagine the struggle of realization to be like crawling through a compost pile of bodies: 

Moving through, moving inside: the borders between the here and there, the up and down vanish. It is consuming to move. I decide to stay for a while. What if I don’t get through this pile, what if I stick with it?! I like the heaviness that is supporting me. Carrying, caring for stuff, that is so different