The Instrument
Descending Dreams of a Transparent Body
Four piano pieces embodied for a dancer in a room with a window facing the sky. At each chapter the eye of the camera brings us closer to the body. The dance meditates between earth and air, each frame breathes in a tangible and animated space.

The music lays a landscape within which one dreams, walks, initiates and surrenders. An intimacy of nearness within a contained space unveils multiple layers and foci. As we look closer, we engage more profoundly with depth and expansion.

The collaboration between choreographer Maya M. Carroll and composer W.A Mathieu began in spring 2020 through a correspondence of gratitude and appreciation towards the mastery of music and dance, and the wish to transfigure and re-create our space within our rooms, our minds and our hearts.

All piano improvisations are by W.A.Mathieu
Dance / choreography by Maya M. Carroll

Filmed during a residency at Lake Studios Berlin, July 2020.
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work list

Temporal Terrestrial Series
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2024
Personas
Eyes held wild horizons
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2023
What Waves What Lands
Interview with a Body
Illustrations
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2022
Eternal Returns
Landscape Songs
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2021
Spin Tuner
Descending Dreams
of a Transparent Body

INTERBEING
ONETIME
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2020
Phantom My Love
Temporal, Terrestrial 8
Temporal, Terrestrial 7
ALL NATURE
Field Scores
Confinement
Temporal, Terrestrial 6
Encapsulation
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2019
Temporal, Terrestrial 5
Bloodsong
Temporal, Terrestrial 4
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2018
Temporal, Terrestrial 3
Temporal, Terrestrial 2
Temporal, Terrestrial 1
She Stone Sea
The Light Beneath Reaches
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2017
Peer
Ingesture
Amar
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2016
Night Glass Day Mirror
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2015
Eyes on Mars
Score 4
Instrumental Bodies
Unraveled Heroes
Tone Undertow
Tide Visible
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2014
Alkaline Birds
While House
Ten Horizons
Tendership
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2013
Fader
Dreadnought
Snake
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2012
Exercise
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2011
The Needle
Magic Valley
Undergrowth
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2010
Transforma
Hide
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2009
Closed Room
A Living Thing
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2008
Frost
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2007
Mem
Shlomot
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2006
Girl Bites Hand
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Maya M Carroll earlier work
Umpf (2006)
Numas Dream (2006)
Once (2005)
Bruno (2004)