Morphic Mimicry
Film exhibited at Climate Week NYC 2025.
Healing our relationship to nature is a crucial underlying driver towards humanity's stewardship of life on earth and beyond. This piece explores reverence for nature through embodied biomimicry. Freediving dancers imitate the movement of jellyfish—one of earth's oldest living fossils and a species blessed with biological immortality enabling indefinite lifespan. As the dancers face limits of breath hold and water pressure, the performance is a humbling reminder of human fragility and our place as not superior to natural systems but rather part of them. Performed in Raja Ampat Indonesia alongside master freediver and underwater dancer Anthea Taeuber.
Premiere
Morphic Mimicry exhibited at the immersive art show Between Waves at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, honoring the ocean — as memory, as movement, as resilience, and as a future we must protect while celebrating the beauty, biodiversity, and urgency of marine conservation.
Performers
Six years ago, freediving found Anthea during a dark and turbulent internal time. Since then, it has led her to some of the most profoundly peaceful places and experiences. Anthea dreams of a world where more of us fall in love with our blue planet—and, in doing so, become bold caretakers of its wonders, and of one another. You can join Anthea and experience freediving in places like this, discovering wonder, calm, and connection, on her freediving immersions that she leads are the world: https://www.instagram.com/antheataeuber/