2019-10-25 Záhrada - Centrum nezávislej kultúry, Banská Bystrica

The audience is seated all around the two performers, a man and a woman. They are throbbing and banging each others bodies while they are talking about their family situation. The movement and text are complementing, and sometimes contradicting each other – creating an intriguing and complex expression. In another moment the performers are leaning into each other, resting, supporting, trusting each other. Until one of them falls.

The piece deals with the complexity of family relations and how contradictory they can be. Wanting to be close, and not. Wanting the other family members to take part of ones life, and not. Maybe the most intriguing contradiction is how difficult it can be to receive love, when this is what we want and need the most.

Choreography: Antoinette Helbing
Performance: Antoinette Helbing & Jan Vesala
Music: Christoph Scherbaum
Light Design: Lya Lundsager
Co-production: Random Collision Groningen (NL)

Antoinette Helbing Antoinette Helbing is a German dancer based in Copenhagen. Her choreographic works "How to be/loved" (2013) and "Re-Dream" (2016) were performed in the Netherlands, Russia, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Greenland, the Faroe Islands and the Philippines. In collaboration with film artist Jan Vesal, she created the award-winning films "BANG" and "Re-Dream". In addition to choreography and teaching, she works as a freelance dancer and lectures at the University of Nordic Art and Dance Houses and Companies.

 

 

 

Supported using public funding by Slovak Arts Council - the main partner of the project O umeni tela 2019.

Photo: Eva Rácová