On My Tongue delves into the sensorial practices that navigate consent, companionship, tactility, and the politics of touch. Set within an uncanny universe of opposing forces — where fear meets desire and melancholia collides with euphoria — it questions intimacy, artificiality, and the role of the senses, how we relate to ourselves and each other in increasingly complex ways.
The four performers engage in a seductive dance, negotiating their relationships with each other’s bodies while under the gaze of the audience. Contradiction lingers in the air as bodies and voices shift in distance and energy, as they oscillate between domination and surrendering, between resistance and embrace. With a sharp eye for paradox and a touch of humour, On My Tongue creates space for emotional loops and glitches in both music and movement, unravelling the intricate ambivalences of touching and being touched.
On My Tongue is a new choreographic work by Emilie Gregersen, developed and performed together with Paolo de Venecia Gile, Sigrid Stigsdatter Mathiassen, and Luisa Fernanda Alfonso. It is the final piece in Emilie Gregersen’s Touch Trilogy, following Caresses (2021) and Touch (2020). The trilogy is a prism of works that explores a phenomenological understanding of touch, with each work offering aesthetic experiences and poetic reflection on how touch shapes our engagement with the world and each other.
