Winterlandschaft mit Nescafé #2

A Dance Solo within the series I see U

A woman inside a transparent cube, in the area of conflict between disclosure and retreat, object and human beeing. A bunch of old clothes, easily thrown, starts dancing. A woman diggs from a mountain of memories, dresses  herself and moves back into the security of the nest.

Starting from quite private moments of memory this dance performance asks for the origin and the ultimate essence of identity, peels off the bare basic message, gets out the naked core, fragments the psychical and physical body up to the purely abstract, carnal moment.In Ilona Pászthy´s solo the stage object (made by MiegL) limits the dance spaciially so much, that it becomes an equitable partner. – a cube wrapped with transparent dark film – allows visibility and conceilment, It is vitrine and prison at the same time. It releases the view on the object inside, which is voyeur itself too,... of herself, of her recollections, of her body and her observers. The artistic question turns towards the intention of exhibiting and observing privacy, it deals with the question about power and powerlessness.Audience and dancer are human and tangible simultaneously. Thus the act of observing moves to the contention about topics like freedom, tolerability, narrowness, security, life. In any time curiosity has tempted people to glance into other peoples life. Nowadays media and virtual systems offer an easy access like never before. But what attracts us so much to look behind other peoples curtain? 

Pressclip

"The big black cube appears mysteriously, its outer skin shines like varnish. The audience reflects in it and will be more often thrown back on itself during the piece. (...) Being relegated to the role of the voyeur, who gets intimacy, whether he likes it or not, it evaporates any idea of ??the power of the observer. Here the young woman has the power to exhibit as it suits her. (...) This small staging (...) creates an oppressive atmosphere. A consistent work (...), that lasts intensively. "
Thomas Linden, Cologne Rundschau, 28 June 2011

communication nützlich + schön

supported by Ministerium für Familie, Kinder, Jugend, Kultur und Sport des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen in cooperation with Barnes Crossing and Orkesztika Foundation Budapest

Choreograph, director and performer Ilona Pászthy

Music

Marcus Greiner

Coach 

Britta Lieberknecht

Lichtdesign/Technik

Wolfgang Pütz

Scenery MiegL

Assistent

Barbara Keusch