It Took Four Summer Storms for Her Love to Explode into a Thousand Fruiting Bodies




Dance film | Italy, 2023 | 8.5 minutes

Filmed in the mountain forests of Vigolo Vattaro in northern Italy, this short dance film unfolds as an eco-somatic invocation—a movement offering to the fungal kingdom and the porous, decomposing body of the earth.

The work invites an attunement to mycelial rhythms and more-than-human intelligence, tracing the soft boundaries between grief and renewal, body and forest, the seen and the secreted. Dancers move with and within the soil, shadows, and rotting wood, surrendering to the deep time of decay and the relational pulse of the land.

It Took Four Summer Storms… draws from principles of embodied listening, ritual gesture, and speculative ecology, letting movement become a form of sensing-with and thinking-through the living world. It is not choreography imposed, but an act of being choreographed by place.


Camera: Serafina Parmelee

Edit/Direction: Anna Kushnerova

Music: Huhtamaki Wab

Dancers: Adam Koan, Eleonora Salvato, Sofia Kovarich, Giacomo AG, Monica, Celeste Combes, Luca Venditoru, Charlotte De Waegenaere