Vaca is a duet that takes the cow, an animal emblematic of man’s hold over the living world, as its object and pretext. This piece is imagined as a study of nature, positioned both in a discourse on the animal and in a feeling for it. Laughing cow, milk cow, porthole cow, mad cow, the contemporary cow is both organic factory and pageant muse. It’s everywhere: in mythology, religious imagery, art, supermarket shelves, man models it to his desires. The piece seeks to develop a danced ethology of the cow, to draw a portrait of a being, a temporality, a sensation. At the edge of a landscape, a semi-documentary, semi-fictional ecological fable, Mountain Cow questions the contradictions of this bucolic, trivial animal figure, of the living reduced to matter.