"Birth Liquid" is a conversation between movement, sound, and light. In this performance, dancers' bodies travel between the stages of birth, chaos and stillness — visiting a place where the self disappears in search of strength and desire.

Inspired by the biological metamorphosis that takes place in a pupa, as caterpillar develops into butterfly, this dance performance and audiovisual experience echoes the metaphor of journeying towards harmony — using the image of the butterfly’s metamorphosis to illustrate how essential and powerful recovery is within the act of transformation. Running alongside and through this is water — a symbol of security, the liquid we are born into, that we consist of, purifies us, and a material in a constant state of transformation, sometimes gentle and sometimes forceful.

Based on, among other things, dance styles from the traditions of Hip Hop and House, as well as movement textures such as flow and groove, Birth Liquid elaborates upon concepts such as identity, vulnerability, exhaustion, dreams, struggle, collective desire and balance. A conversation between movement, sound, and light, this is a performance partly choreographed, partly open to total improvisation.

"Birth Liquid" is an extension of the dance film ‘A Bath In My Mother's Womb’, directed by Mona Namér in 2021. The film premiered at the Gothenburg Film Festival, and on SVT Play and has since won several awards including Best Experimental Short Film at the Next Generation Indie Film Awards in Los Angeles. Namér is an ambitious and prolific dance artist and creative director whose credits include working with artists like Little Dragon as well as commercial clients such as VOLVO and IKEA. Leaning on Hip Hop and freestyle techniques, "Birth Liquid" is Namér's first stage work under her own name.