blickwerk

Pentalogy SHIFT OF SENSES Part II
A dance piece by Ilona Pászthy

Selected for tanzstrasse 2003

Blickwerk points out the sense of „watching“ and the influence of visual aspects to the senses. Therefore video projection is used additionally, produced in co-operation with the video artists Thomas Nowara and Boris Irmscher. The purpose is to find new levels of projection to shift the senses.

The network of community is based on senses, which

make communication possible. But if these senses are irritated, influenced or confused, the network and the communication changes as a result. Media address to

the senses and pretend them a world with own values.

Step by step social behaviour changes, values disappear, new values appear and the way of communication

switches to an abstract level.

Steps of evolution? Being between the real level (stage) and the virtual level (video projection)? This question is

the central aspect of the cycle „shift of senses”. In this second part of the pentalogy, the modern human being looks for the moments of banality and its beauty in opposite to a created media world where senses have

lost their meaning. The research for the truth hidden

inside the illusion, the discussion of individual reality,

will be centre of the choreographic work of Ilona Pászthy. The interaction of choreography, stage elements and

video projection wants to question senses and sensuality

as a base of common sense in human society.

Strong pictures
“Again we find the staging-elements of MiegL, sculptor

and partner ofPászthy. Extraordinary this time there are

3 basins with a 1,50 meter diameter. Sometimes they

cling to the floor or are used as swings; they also are rolled, turned or used for projections.Pászthys choreography gives the dancersMaria Nurmela, Ute Pliestermann and Anna Städler alot of space to play with the multiple objects. They build up a veryhomogeneous

trio in quality of movement andexpression. Sometimes reflective, sometimes frolicsome they seem to be

searching for the childish innocence in play.“

Kölner Stadtanzeiger, 8.10. 2002