Entities - theater of gestures -
Entities - theatre of gestures - is a dance performance that explores layers of perceptual experience through a fine modulation of movement, light and sound. Three dancers mold forms and movements through the accumulation of gestures and fleeting re-interpretations of fictional and real selfs. The abstract narration that comes about is slowly swallowed into a darkness constantly modulated by flashes of withe light and colours. As the choreography on stage builds up to an overwhelming rhythm of images and absences, the music breaks down into drone sounds that produce enveloping vibrations. In the incessant crescendo of sensorial inputs, the performance on stage is no longer an action carried out in front of the viewer, neither an image in his/her mind, it is rather the physical experience of being swallowed into a transcendental space.
The movement of the dancers is developed through a methodological process aimed at tweaking the space of interaction between the somatic experience of the gesture, the reenactment of embodied archives and their aesthetic and theatrical projections. The persistent action multiplies the forms of the body while scattering the perception of the self. Extemporally fictional characters appear, which mix with a series of (re)played - (re)lived - (re)interpreted - (re)invented self-portraits, creating a web of incomplete narratives.
photos by Manne Schütt
Credits
Concept and choreography: Mirko Guido
Developed with and performed by: Lisa Schåman, Elise Brewer, Darío Bardam
Light design: Jens Sethzman
Sound and acoustic design: Maria W Horn (featured track Antimatter by Polar Inertia)
Artistic assistant and project coordinator: Patricia Vázquez Iruretagoyena
Photos: Manne Schütt
Co-produced by: Weld in Stockholm
Supported by: Work Space Bruxelles (within the frame of WILD CARDS - exchange program of Life Long Burning); Uferstudios (Through the Residence Stipendium of the international dance program of Konstnärsnämden); SITE Sweden (as part of Mirko Guido’s artistic residency)
With the support of Kulturrådet and Kulturbryggan Startstöd 10
Performances
2017-10-20 at Open Dance Festival (Teatri Koreja, Lecce)
2017-09-07;09 at Stockholm Fringe Festival (Teater Tre, Stockholm)
2016-04-14;15;16 at Weld, Stockholm (premiere)
2016-01-22 at Dansstationen, Malmö (work in progress)
2015-11-06;07 at Danscentrum, Stockholm (work in progress)
2015-09-01 at Uferstudios, Berlin (work in progress)