CLASH
I want to, and I don’t want to. I desire it, but I don’t. I feel like I have to, but it’s not allowed. I want to do it, but know I shouldn’t... and still do it. Or don’t I?
The performance investigates the ideological, social, and political parameters of “good” and “bad”. It explores what designations such as “right/wrong”, “acceptable/unacceptable”, “conform/non-conform”, “pure/impure” mean, and who is empowered to make these distinctions. The piece focuses on how we confront, if we confront, social norms and expectations, our religious, cultural, and moral heritage, how do we deal with rules and systems in which we are socialized and familiarized with. What does it means and how does it feels to take the path of the “other”, the “not allowed”? What happens when we want to go against, to challenge, to change, to switch, but we don’t dare to? How do we negotiate and how do we deal with our rational side? What does our intellectual, spiritual, psychological, and emotional fight look like when desire takes over reason?
Questioning, stretching, cutting - “CLASH” is about the duel between temptation and control, will and self-restraint, instinct and retention, where energy and strength is created by the tensions between opposite forces in both a physical and moral sense. An ode to desire and a song of lamentation to abandonment, both at once.
The performance investigates the ideological, social, and political parameters of “good” and “bad”. It explores what designations such as “right/wrong”, “acceptable/unacceptable”, “conform/non-conform”, “pure/impure” mean, and who is empowered to make these distinctions. The piece focuses on how we confront, if we confront, social norms and expectations, our religious, cultural, and moral heritage, how do we deal with rules and systems in which we are socialized and familiarized with. What does it means and how does it feels to take the path of the “other”, the “not allowed”? What happens when we want to go against, to challenge, to change, to switch, but we don’t dare to? How do we negotiate and how do we deal with our rational side? What does our intellectual, spiritual, psychological, and emotional fight look like when desire takes over reason?
Questioning, stretching, cutting - “CLASH” is about the duel between temptation and control, will and self-restraint, instinct and retention, where energy and strength is created by the tensions between opposite forces in both a physical and moral sense. An ode to desire and a song of lamentation to abandonment, both at once.
Premiere: E-Werk Kulturzentrum, Erlangen, Germany, 19.06.2019, 2019
Appx. 30 min
Concept, choreography, visual: Anna Ádám / Performance: Gaál Júlia / Music: Boldizsár Komjáthy / Lights: Mátyás Major / Supporters: MoveIn Studio, NKA Imre Zoltán Program, SIN Arts Centre / Production: Gray Box
Appx. 30 min
Concept, choreography, visual: Anna Ádám / Performance: Gaál Júlia / Music: Boldizsár Komjáthy / Lights: Mátyás Major / Supporters: MoveIn Studio, NKA Imre Zoltán Program, SIN Arts Centre / Production: Gray Box
Photos - Mátyás Gyuricza / PINCE, 2019.
