gaze
gaze is a dance piece linking the various elements of time space and sound, with movement and the language of the body.
The theme of this dance presentation is the communication of border situations in human interaction, resulting into a dance dialogue between the inner and outer layers of the bodies on stage. The choreography, connects three different but interacting layers of audio, visual and movement material: video sequences of body parts and a devised musical score intercepted with voice fragments in an already existing musical work, as part of the choreographic concept.
The presentation aims at a kind of dance geometry of feelings, at the moment where one body approaches another or departs or marks a still point before the next move...
Who arrives, he or she who comes, coming to be where she or he was not expected, where one was awaiting him or
her without waiting, without expecting it, without knowing what or whom to expect, what or whom I am waiting
for-and such is hospitality itself
Derrida :: Aporias
The impulses and dynamics result into a dance form, reflecting inner and outer states within the body's psyche and nature
The choreographic draft or score, aims to invent a new dance vocabulary by involving minimal and at times complex movement based on gesture language. In order to achieve this, the dancers resource material from the deeper layers of their being and find ways to tell a story through the use of their own gestural language. In the process of the unfolding of the work the piece aims towards a dramatic undercurrent, which echoes the theories of post structuralism, writers like Derrida and Barthes:
I gaze at you, as if one gazes at the impossible
Roland Barthes
One does not expect the event of whatever of whoever comes, arrives and crosses the threshold - the immigrant,
the guest, or the stranger.
Derrida :: Aporias
- choreography:
- Alexandra Waierstall
- dancers:
-
Moon Lyun-Seung
Peter Memmer
Alexandra Waierstall - music devised by:
- Alexandra Waierstall
- video interaction:
- Aris Kyriakides