alexandra bachzetsis

• bluff
• dancing
• dream season
• soiree / company
• this side up
• mainstream
• act / company
• musical
• handwerk
• undressed
• secret instructions
• gold
• murder mysteries - same difference
• best of
• show dance
• It’s a kind of magic
• showing
• perfect

Dancing

«Dancing» is a performance piece for 14 dancers in a white space. The
piece begins with a hypnotic staccato sound loop as a music background
for a sensuous solo by a female dancer. As the music changes into
dancey beats, a male performer appears in a distance and starts a
completely different sequence of extravert and techno-like movements,
while the girl continues her solo, uninterrupted. Various performers
and groups enter the stage and leave again in a carefully planned
order of appearance. The choreography unveils as an accumulation of
dance movements including delays, sequences staged in reverse,
movements repeated with changing speed, multiplications and other
formal complications, often reminiscent of cinematic techniques.
Composed as a riddle, which orchestrates fourteen individual parts
into one, «Dancing» is a powerful act of ecstatic dance under total
control. The piece explores the subjective, individual body languages
as material that can be structured, transferred and used by others.
The body of each performer is recognized as a carrier of specific
corporeal knowledge that can be shared and further used as tool to
work with, in a similar way like other types of knowledge, commonly
associated with the mental part of human being.

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