Mycelia Memories




Performance | 30min | Spazio500, Palazzo Malfatti | Italy


A somatic offering to the intelligence of fungi, Mycelia Memories is a 30-minute live performance exploring the interwoven vitality of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Five performers moved as kin—human, fungal, and beyond—inhabiting the micro- and macrocosm of a living entity in flux.

The performance began in ritual preparation: sculpting “fruiting bodies” from mycelium leathers and wax-dipped fabric strips. These second skins—branched, porous, and tender—transformed the dancers into vessels of ecological memory.

We danced not only with our bodies, but with what our bodies could host:

Memories of germinating nuns, slowly diffusing algae, harlequins of decomposition, bees threading nectar through branching time.

We danced the desire to return to the source of life itself, to integrate with the soil, the breath, the rot, the root.

From chaos into constellation, from decay into nourishment, the performance unfolded like a spore cloud—transitory, fertile, collective.

Performed by: Anna Kushnerova, Sofia Kovarich, Julie Becton Gillum, Alexandra Jane Wynne, Tejus Menon

Costume design: Anna Kushnerova