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The movement of the embryo and subsequently the fetus is, for obstetric ultrasound professionals, an essential semiological target. Simultaneously, it is frequently for the “parents-to-be” a decisive visual spurt in the process of parentalization. Fetal motor function and heartbeat are interpreted as the first signs of life of the being, conceived ahead of any maternal proprioception and conjugal exteroception. This medical and parental authentication of the immersion of the virtual child in the river of movement opens up the possibilities of its ontological epigenesis whose death (the absence of movement) constitutes from now on the indissociable shadow. The clinic of parent-fetus/baby consultations illustrates the range of variations of this perinatal choreography between Eros and Thanatos. The art of dance commemorates all of life during the inaugural prenatal aquatic imprint of the “first world” and the postnatal aerial avatars of the second world.