YIELDING - Escarleth Romo Pozo

Where soft and hard meet, we can all fall apart

YIELDING is a group work choreographed by Escarleth Romo Pozo featuring dancers Robert Malmborg and Victor Pérez Armero alongside electronic musician Adde Huumonen. The audience sits inside the room, surrounded by movement and an enveloping sound that is tangible and intimate - the dancers' physical expressions are magnified when they are so close that you feel them more than see them, while the sound vibrates through your body.

Inspired by Brazilian jiujitsu, the movements are defined by strength and submission, embodying the tension between two bodies in struggle and mutual dependence. Romo Pozo places us in a fictional space searching for portals where past, present, and future can coexist - an intuitive trio where bodies intertwine, stretch, break apart, and dissolve in a continuum between strength and vulnerability.

(Excerpt from text inspired by the essay 'SEEDS' by Felizia Matthews)

This is Escarleth's first visit with her own work at Norrlandsoperan. The Umeå audience met her in 2021 as a dancer in Lisbeth Gruwez's production The Sea Within. Victor Pérez Armero has previously appeared in Jefta van Dinthers On earth I'm done and Sindri Runudde's Cosmetic Demons, and Robert Malmborg was seen in Robin Jonsson's virtual work Alone together.