Performance Mechanics of Distance: Perform Europe w Warszawie
Performance Mechanics of Distance: Perform Europe w Warszawie
Performance Mechanics of Distance: Perform Europe w Warszawie
Performance Mechanics of Distance: Perform Europe w Warszawie
Performance Mechanics of Distance: Perform Europe w Warszawie
Performance Mechanics of Distance: Perform Europe w Warszawie
Performance Mechanics of Distance: Perform Europe w Warszawie

Performance Mechanics of Distance: Perform Europe w Warszawie

Місце
Вхід
27–40 PLN
Вебсайт сторінки
Довжина
60 min
Прем'єра
2019
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"Mechanics of Distance" is a site-specific performance that was among the top 20 dance performances according to Aerowaves (Aerowaves Priority Selection in 2020).

The performers from three very different backgrounds (a classically trained ballet dancer, a dancer with a folk dance background and a dancer trained with contemporary techniques) and the musician interfere with one another's personal spaces so much that the recipient/spectator can make away from their usual urge/constraints for interpretation. The bodies place the dance in the perspective of fine arts by their plasticity, materiality. Mechanics of Distance is a site specific choreography for three dancers and a musician to be performed in a public space, exhibition halls, lobbies, gardens, squares, etc. The audience follows the performers in the space at a proximity of their choice. Each time it is performed, the piece is adapted to the specific space and location.

Mechanics of Distance focuses on positioning static and moving bodies in space, cramming matching and mismatched systems into it and examining the distance between bodies. To illustrate this problem the choreographer’s tool is to find the right gesture, the translation of abstraction to the physical body.


The piece presents encounter-variations of bodies in space stimulating free interpretation. Episodic events drawn from social and personal contexts represent emotional, moral or intellectual situations.’ In Mészáros’ choreography the direct, tangible togetherness and closeness meet a more elevated, solemn dimension, and supplemented by a more political dimension with the aim of finding an answer to the question of how far the limits of dance can be extended, what potentials are underlying a specific, poorly exploited (infra)structure and what the endless dimensions are of experimentation, the open space waiting to be explored. (Dorottya Albert, szinhaz.net)

Choreography and concept: Máté Mészáros
 Creators-performers: Jenna Jalonen, Máté Mészáros, Zsófia Tamara Vadas
 Music: Aron Porteleki Consultant: Tamás Bakó
 Producer: SÍN Arts Centre Coordination in Poland: Yuliya Dzichkouskaya on behalf of the Association of Theatre Pedagogues

The choreography was realized with the support of the Zoltán Imre Programme of the National Cultural Fund and was amongst the Aerowaves Priority Selection in 2020. The performance is happening as part of the Perform Europe project East Goes to East. The partner of the project in Poland is the Association of Theater Pedagogues.

Association of Theater Pedagogues is an organization that brings together artists, creators, activists and theater educators. They work in the field of art focused on social issues, searching for new forms and ways of communication, relations and creation. 


Perform Europe is an EU-funded project aimed to rethink how performing arts works are presented across borders in a more inclusive, sustainable and balanced way by testing new touring and distribution practices and providing policy recommendations for a future EU support scheme. This 18-month journey includes a research phase, launching a digital platform, testing a support scheme, and designing policy recommendations. Perform Europe is funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union and co-managed by a Consortium of 5 organisations: IETM – International network for contemporary performing arts, the European Festivals Association (EFA), Circostrada, EDN – European Dancehouse Network, and IDEA Consult.

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