Meditations on a Liquid Tongue is a choreographic project for three dance artists, exploring the tongue as a bodily landscape of sensation, desire and expression. Moving beyond its immediate functions, the project investigates the tongue's physical, sensory and imaginative potential, bringing together bodily exploration, existential fantasies and dystopian imaginaries.
The work explores the relationship between desire, movement and consumption, opening up an embodied reflection on what we take in and are nourished by – both as physical matter and information.
Through detailed choreographic structures, repetition, synchronisation and improvisation, we develop movement material shaped by internal rhythms, contrasts in tempo and dynamics, and an ongoing drive towards something. Deep listening and collective physical exploration become central to the process.
As a first phase of exploring it will be presented as a work-in-progress at Mind The Gap in Oslo on 6 December 2026.
Artistic concept, choreography and dance: Ida Haugen
Co-creating dancers: Antonia Harke, Oda Olivia Øverbø Lindegård
The project is currently in development, with ongoing applications for residencies, co-productions and production funding.