Dagmar Gertot

It approaches the butt as a critical locus of embodiment, visibility, and transformation.

**Manifesto of the Gentle Bastard** *An Ode to the Outrageous.

March 7, 2025. Paris Fashion Week. Interview with a scientist — an epidemiologist and professor at a major university. Personal details are withheld for security reasons.

First, a lifelong fascination with the pigment Venetian red — a watercolor whose smell recalls blood. Second, the material reality of menstruation itself.

The body as limit of function, being the reason of this limit. Feminine articulation and the metaphor of voice.

The voice remains the gravitational center. Here are intensity, surreal poetics, and raw improvisation, often blurring the line between music, performance, and dreamlike narration.

I affirm the right to idleness, uselessness, and play.

Nomad Goba is a hybrid brand-studio specializing in avant-garde clothing, artisanal perfumery, and interdisciplinary artistic practices.

Wormwood artemisia, black pepper, ozone, wet soil, water lily, hawthorn, bluebells, figs, violet leaf, base of wax, milk, salt, musk.

For this performance I made a path from a silver spring, through a charred forest of looped trunks once revered by the Curonians, to a temple I built from a tree destroyed by lightning.

A session has always been, and still is, a temple of silence for me.

Anchorite dance is understood here as a methodological development: a practice that reclaims isolation as a generative condition.