Sulphur Edges

U.S.A. 2025, 60‘
Directed and choreographed by Meg Stuart

 

Bodies teeter on the cusp: between rigidity and trembling, composure and relaxation, public space and private reflection. Movement arises from relationships: with temperature, texture, invisible forces, and with one another. The edges of architecture, voice and presence are constantly permeable. Imagination flickers in the in-between, where a pool becomes a portal, a ruin a score, and attention the work itself.

The performers react intuitively to their surroundings, guided by Meg Stuart. The camera moves alongside them as a choreographic partner, tracking tensions between bodies, places and atmospheres. What remains? A record of relationships – provisional, porous, utterly alive.

“Sulphur Edges” travels through the thermal pools of São Miguel in the Azores, through swimming pools on the ocean’s edge, and through the remains of a mine and a hotel. In this process of sensing, listening and conveying, they are co-performers.