2019
performance
improvisation
DOING THINGS
A MULTIMEDIAL PERFORMANCE BASED ON FRAGILITY OF IMPROVISATION & (IMPERSONAL) AFFECT
People that I don’t know well are staying at my place. When they are
around I am tensed. I am repeating things, like standing up and looking
at the oven, realizing that my action has no cause I’m coming back to have my tea and when its paper label is squashed in all directions I’m standing up
again...
Stretching time, navigating the gaze, generating coincidental encounters
for unexpected feelings to emerge. Performers and visitors together form a collective body that carries out the work of fabulating - primarily by
the fact of being enmeshed (physically and semantically) here and now.
“How to acknowledge the obscure but ubiquitous intensity of impersonal affect?”
"We are constantly recomposing our body and our attention in response to the environment, to things known and unknown. This inner dance is a most basic improvisation - reading and responding to the scripts of the environment."
“In
perception, nothing is hidden. The world is there to be taken in. But in
perception, in a sense, everything is hidden. For wherever you look there is
unbounded complexity, there is too much to be taken in.”
“You might say: whereas the
dancing body specifically dances the ground, walking to the bus stop is an
activity that presupposes a stable ground. Is it so cut and dry?”
CREATIVE TEAM:
Concept Dorota Michalak, Borys Slowikowski
Choreography & facilitation Dorota Michalak
Co-creation, performance & set-up Dorota Michalak, Borys Slowikowski, Lena Czerniawska & guests (Tio’tia:ke /Montreal: Miri Chekhanovich, Haley Jenkins-Crumb)
PARTNERS:
ECHO HOUSE in Tio’tia:ke / Montreal
White Wall Studio in Tio’tia:ke / Montreal
SUPPORT:
HZT Berlin
ada Studio in Berlin
PROMOS by DAAD (visit at SenseLab)
Adam Mickiewicz Institute
PRESS & MEDIA