This quartet was choreographed by Andrea Givanovitch in collaboration with dancers and performers Marcello Musini, Jaewon Jung, Luisa Heilbron, and Sofia Pouchtou. The piece explores how individuals form connections—through touch, emotions, and sensations. Building relationships is a fundamental human desire: to share and exchange experiences. Yet these interactions are layered, complex, and often difficult to interpret. Through the creative process, we aimed to examine and reveal how we form intimate bonds with other bodies and souls. The work opens with a mass of entangled bodies. One inspiration for this scene was the Sleeping Hermaphrodite statue, a metaphor for how perspective is essential to mutual understanding. This 17th-century sculpture, depicting a body that is both male and female depending on the viewpoint, resonated deeply with my journey as a queer artist discovering my gender identity. The image of a (nearly) naked, intertwined group helped blur conventional ideas of gendered bodies. In this de-gendered mass, a new space for communication emerges—one of sensitivity, care, and physical closeness. Yet heteronormative institutional time inevitably intrudes, slowly dismantling this embryonic queer space-time. Nicole Kidman’s monologue in Eyes Wide Shut was a key inspiration. It was one of my earliest artistic awakenings, aligning with my young queer perspective. It provoked questions about how humans connect through fantasies and dreams, and about the limits we internalize, shaped by a patriarchal, capitalist society. This reflection informed the creation of choreographic material exploring intimacy and relationships, developed collaboratively with the performers and later translated into complex group choreographies that express the richness of human connection. The performance then shifts to an improvisational score, to deepen the performer’s connection. This method encourages new ways of listening and relating—mirroring everyday life. It involves adapting to movement and timing propositions within a shared material framework. The aim is to uncover how varying contexts evoke distinct energies in each performer, supporting a constantly evolving, collaborative process.