These are not your memories
performative reading of “Step Forward, Harry Salt” with the author Ross Lowe, Beyond Limits, Berlin 2023
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These Are Not Your Memories
July 2022, Berlin, Germany
These Are Not Your Memories is a performative reading combined with contemporary dance, based on the text Step Forward, Harry Salt by Ross Lowe. The project integrates spoken word narration by the author with dance interpretation by Irena Wiktor, creating a layered exploration of memory, identity, and transformation. The performance was documented on video by Rafał Korzeniowski under the Beyond Limits foundation.
These are not your memories
The golden sand
Between your toes
The colder stuff beneath
The chatter and swirl Of the funfair ride
They are not yours, my son
They are not yours at all
The beans on toast
As the waitress smiled
The comic you read
with Dad
The faraway sea
The love disclosed
They were never yours, my son
Never yours at all
The dark midnight mountain
The valley far below Full of bright red eyes
That glow
The shimmer
And roar and the fear
That’s where it begins, my son
That is you, reborn
The black blur
On the road disturbed
Lurching car Head over heels
Darkness, darkness
Down, down. Deep.
Deeper.
That’s where you begin, my son.
For to rise, first you must sink.
speaker, performer, book’s author: Ross Lowe
dancer: Irena Wiktor
video: Rafał Korzeniowski
Beyond Limits, July 2022, Berlin, Germany