When the fish dies, the mother’s depression breaks the surface. The daughter dances to keep the world afloat.
In this animated poem, a fish dies before a mother and daughter. It is nature exercising its logic, as a heron in flight catches the solitary fish and returns it lifeless to land. An emotional abyss unfolds, seemingly transcending that moment and evoking human impotence in the face of loss, whether of an animal or of reason. The mother fragments into shadows, tenebrous replicas of herself, calling her to the lake, insisting that she succumb to sadness. The daughter, without words sufficient to recover her mother, chooses dance as a plea, evoking the bond that unites them, in a fragile and desperate gesture to hold onto what is slipping away. La Mort du Poisson is a choreography where music breathes for those who can no longer speak. An intimate lament, where mourning is not merely ritual, but a mirror: the place where the child discovers that loving also means accepting the limits of others, and finding her own center in movement. (Margarida Moz)
