Distances Within

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Getting lost means that the relationship between us and the surrounding space has suffered a breech. Without this interaction it becomes impossible to create important point of reference. This means getting lost within a context. It is therefore the inversion, or the short-circuit of a cultural process; The vanishing of attention to the world around. Therefore progressive isolation.
"Distances Within" is inspired by the idea of disorientation. Like a daily lapse, sees the incessant rhythmic repetition of movements in space becoming dance. It is a series of persistent actions that seems to end in themselves, at times suffocating, like a game with no end or solution. That moment when the gap created between the actual and the desired reside in the body itself.

"Distances Within" is a choreographic composition that accepts chance with preparatory decisions. Architectural, technical and aesthetic choices, maps the directions of penetration in the choreographic moment to be analyzed; the extension of the area of investigation may range from the detail of the body articulation, to the spatial perception, to the complex and more complete relationship between the body and the surrounding environment in an instant.
The work has two main concepts: repetition and vicious circle, and it consists of three scenes. Each one takes an autonomous direction, although consequentially to one another. Each scene sees the performer persevere with few but intense actions. Composed in this way, the choreographic structure creates a counterpoint to the complex and detailed work of the performers improvisation, creating simplicity and strength in which the performer is found to persist in actions. Actions that do not have a real way out. Instead they seem to end in themselves, at times suffocating.

Photos by: Anna Tina Eberhard

Credits

Concept and choreography: Mirko Guido

Performer: Alberto Franceschini (also performed by Elias Girod)

Music: Original composition by Liz Heiner

Lights: Mirko Guido

Performances

- 2012 -

Within the frame of the festival TanzPlan Ost in Switzerland :

- Lokremise, St. Gallen (Premiere)
- TanzRaum, Herisau
- TAK Theater Liechtenstein, Schaan
- Tanzhaus, Zürich
- Phönix-Theater 81, Steckborn

- inSTABILE.12 Platform (Treviso, Italy)

- 2013 -

- Festival éviDanse, Forum (Saint-Georges Delémont, Switzerland) - Dansstationen, Plattform (Malmö, Sweden)
- Festival La Becquée (Brest, France) - DCIntro Plattform (Danscentrum Stockholm, Sweden) - Uusi Teatteri (Stockholm, Sweden)
- Festival “Dans <3 Stockholm” (Stockholm, Sweden)

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