BADco. premiere A Lesser Evil
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** Premiere: 16., 17. and 18. 10. 2014 @ Kino SC, Savska 25, Zagreb, Croatia
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You go and you arrive somewhere. Or not. You watch and you see something. Or
not. The place at which you arrive will not exist for long, the things you see
seem like a threat. But what connects the concrete place, its time and its
duration, is rhythm; a rhythm which constitutes dance, which constitutes fear,
a rhythm which constitutes pleasure. In this new performance by BADco. rhythm
forms time which carries the dread, a time which ticks away, a time which
hammers in. If the contemporary danse macabre is no longer a procession of dead
men or a procession of social classes but rather a chain of vibrations,
electromagnetic waves and sonic affects, how else would one choreograph it if
not as a solo performance?
Our everyday life unfolds according to different temporal cycles like the
calendar, daily and lunar cycles, and basic life cycles – somatic or
mechanical. Rhythm is the phenomenon that connects place and time and provides
a sort of infrastructure for time. Tempo, a momentary choice, duration,
frequencies, sequences and rhythm are all mutually conditioning structures of
time and every dance performance, which is a limited temporal image of spatial
modifications, benefits precisely from the ways it deploys these structures.
The work on this performance is thus grounded in our interest in the so-called
rhythmanalysis and focused greatly on the experimentation with a set of varied
relations which occur between rhythmic patterning, vibrations and frequencies,
as well as different ways of measuring time. A dance performance, whether it be
artistic, recreational, religious or social is, on the other hand, only one
among many tactics of drowning the body into sonic spaces that
produce matching affective states – pleasure, irritation or fear. Furthermore,
one of the mythological topoi of the discourse on dance is precisely the body’s
attempt to reach a state when it is fully immersed in the act of dancing. This
concept of a body that is being danced away proposes that we think about the
body in dance as a specific type of object in continuity with other material
objects, as a particular condensation of matter within a general continuity of
movement.
Choreography in this performance is an attempt to neglect the romanticist
concept of the body as a generator of movement and focus instead on the body’s
ability to mediate but also to resist different series of movements, gazes and
vibrations which chain both living and nonliving mediators together by way of
conformation, translation, composition etc. And for this reason we needed to
focus our attention on the “underground fluxes” of a dance performance; the
infrastructure of dance, background rhythms, the rhythm of elementary corporeal
functions and their visceral effects.
BADco.
The performance is jointly choreographed by Nikolina Pristaš and Zrinka Užbinec
and it is performed by Zrinka Užbinec.
Dramaturgy and set up: Goran Sergej Pristaš
Music and suggestions about sound: Alen and Nenad Sinkauz
Idea and costume design: Silvio Vujičić
Sound design: Jasmin Dasović
Company manager: Lovro Rumiha
Production assistant: Vanja Zubović
Photo: Dinko Rupčić
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Project supported by: Zagreb City Council for Education, Culture and Sport;
Ministry of Culture of Republic of Croatia
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