The Body of the War, trailer

A production by Skånes Dansteater with choreographer Viktoriia Khoroshylova and cinematographer Carl Johan Folkesson Karlidag.

The idea of the film “The body of the war” by Viktoriia Khoroshylova. It is a documentary dance which appears in the gap between Victoria's experience of the outside environment in peaceful Sweden and the internal full of the war in Ukraine. Her body has become the body of the war and in the piece, she is searching within herself to find where the war resides. Is it stocked in the cracks, wounds of the body, hairs, skin pores, feet, bends and lengths of the body? War is closer than we think. In the piece we are reminded about awareness and being attentive to what it means to be human and what it takes to care of the environment and humaneness at the same time.

The film is divided in three chapters and locations that are linked to specific places in Ukraine. The rock on a beach brings Viktoriia to houses in ruins, a wheat field on a beautiful day reminds her of the burning fields in south of Ukraine and the safe landscape and statue of the Barsebäcks power plant is a stark contrast to the reality of the Zaporizhzhya NPP which is under constant military attack by the Russian army.