Let me be your burden, you my shoulder.

A choreographic analysis of the oppressive sensation that a heavy burden places on one’s shoulders—explored through corporeality in Burdens of Being. This widely understood metaphor also takes on a subversive meaning here: the burden we impose on others, our fears, our worries that arise from coexisting with fellow human beings.

When does being together become a weight for someone? When is the moment we temporarily lean on one another, in order to be fully present for the other? When do we carry each other, even if only briefly, in times of need?

A constant back-and-forth of two bodies orbiting each other like planets—exchanging gravity, being drawn together, their individual orbits intertwining inseparably. The burden becomes coexistence: a continuous presence for one another, and at the same time, a trust in the other’s presence for oneself.