A river. A human. Both water bodies. Both once fluid, untamed, and multiple. Both straightened.

This solo is a choreography of resistance, shaped by Cilai’s experience as a non-binary

body raised alongside the Rhine: a river they have only ever known as channelled, bordered,

disciplined. But once, it meandered in a multiple. They go in search of the Rhine’s queer

traces, listening to what was lost when its waters were straightened, and its movement

became binary.

What happens to a river when we force it to flow in only one direction?

What happens to a gendered body?

Through chanting, looping, storytelling and drag Cilai ask how bodies that were straightened
into a resource can queer themselves again.

the natural Upper Rhine / the regulated Upper Rhine