I see U No. 3

A dance installation

Part 3 of the 3 year concept „I see U“

The premiere: in the bunker in Cologne Ehrenfeld, Premiere and further performances: 13th to 22nd

of october 2011.

The device of the triology „I see U“ Privacy becomes public, Publicity becomes private in the third part turns towards the isolation visitors experience. The visitor will get a route system, he decides about the dramaturgy of his „private performance“. Depending on the order of visited places it will provide an insight into relations, stories, connections, via projections, records, real persons, voices, finally condensing to one context, one individual facet of reality. Transformed into an active part of the performance he becomes regisseur, member of the ensemble, consumer, consumer good, unknown observer, part of private and public space at the same time.

The concept can be transfered to any other place with the possibility to use different spaces (basements, storages, theatres with more than one room, ...) An adapted version was realized in september 2011 in Theaterlabor im tor 6 / Bielefeld. Next performance: March 2012, Fabrik Heeder Krefeld.

Pressclips

“Identity was an issue of the entire trilogy "I See U", another one was privacy. Who does what? Who should see what? When am I invited audience, when troublesome intruder? What is voyeurism and what is exhibitionism? In the insular areas of the bunker Ehrenfeld, the audience has no choice: it migrates on the narrow ridge between privacy and publicity, either being embarrassed or affected, between appearance and truth, virtuality and reality. In the last part of the trilogy the choreographer takes her audience onto another level, that much, that in the end we barely want to hear the reluctant male voice: "It is time to go." (AKT/ Nov. 2011 / Theatre newspaper / Christina Maria Purkert)

The most impressive moments are those where it is about the interface: the skin. When almost naked bodies scrape on the raw ground of the bunker, rolling  and shaking, everything nice and cozy is gone. In the encounter between two bodies, the contact is unloving and violent.

This is hard to bear. This part of the "I See U" trilogy is fairly touching. (Kölner Statdanzeiger / 20.10.2011 / Melanie Suchy)