The Last Dance

Directed by Fatmi Mohamed Louay When I uncovered the extinction story of the Kaua’i Bird, I felt an immediate connection, as if I were looking into a mirror reflecting my own fate. I imagined the bird’s last moments — a profound loneliness, an echo of life fading away, where death arrives not once, but twice. first as the quiet, crushing weight of despair, and then as the final breath of existence. I wanted to capture that last song, not through sound but through the language of the human body. Through dance, I sought to translate its sorrowful melody into movement, to express the depths of its silent agony and our shared capacity for emotion.