Eiland

Pentalogy SHIFT OF SENSES Part I
A dancepiece by Ilona Pászthy

Eiland is a collage of associations and silent moments in a

perio of time that is determined by intellect, consumption and

the valenceof sense “shifts”. It is about wishes and loss, about deafness,delusion, and the „islands“ on which to experience the senses, how ever they happen to look. The focus of this first

part of the pentalogy is directed to the sense of touch. Shifted aspects of perception related to each other, to isolation, to tangential fears, to desires for tenderness…

The dancing phrases are determined by contemporary and individual movement material which comes out of the working process, as well as theatrical moments and partnering sequences. The scenery is an essential element of the choreography; its central aspect is the way the handling of the elements by the dancers produces pictures on stage.

„The beginning is idyllic. Natalia Torales slides on two bamboo sticks like skiis backwards through the room before she glides over the floor together with Cassiano Garcia and Ilona Pászthy,

as liquid and graceful as if they would be in the sea. Electronic music drops into space, later we can hear the waves of the sea.

But the idyl in Ilona Pászthys new dance piece „Eiland“, that premiered at Bürgerhaus Stollwerck, only lasts for a short time. Soon they all adjust, align sculptures behind them (scenery: MiegL). They look like oversizedfossils, white and curved, soft and rounded, and with holes from decay.All three take place so stylish as if it would be designer furniture. Theneach of them softly touches his sculpture.We find in „Eiland” a lot of poetic approaches which give space tomovement and the senses.

One of them is the attempt to follow therhythm of nature and to incorporate it with the dancers. In one scenetwo dancers impetuous and at the same time very smoothly change

directions, as if they would be leaves moving in the wind.”

Basil Nikitakis, Kölner Stadtanzeiger, 8. November 2001