“This series is not exactly a series, rather a mix of moments shared with women in different places around the world, women who make a living from dance and their bodies. Women who fly in search of freedom, their destiny, who fight close to the ground and to the movement of their body, in a continuous flow that makes them go around the world. A new species of migratory bird that flies across seas and oceans before arriving on dry land; some stay on an island, perhaps in Spain, in Ibiza for an indefinite period, others travel as far as Reno, in the ISA, in a journey that takes them to and from Madrid, to a street that can only be named disillusion.
Siwah is also, or perhaps above all, the story of a vision of a traveling woman who is a migratory bird, flung in search of a land that no longer exists, turning into the bodies and customs of other women. In this case, women who half work and half live in a clandestine Arabic dance venue, similar to a brothel. A meeting place. And also, a luxury sex shop on an island, because, as we know, islands are good stopping off points for birds on a short flight; another half-hidden meeting place. In these two places, and in many others (Reno, Mexico City…) there are various encounters, meetings between people, between glances, coincidences meetings on a journey. Ways of looking, living and viewing the world and to search for how to follow the flight of these women, photographer and dancers came together at a point in time. Just to recharge and recuperate, take some photographs, dance some eternal dances and continue on the journey that takes us back to the same place: a destination within ourselves where only the most insensitive arrive.”
— Rosa Olivares