Dance Party (the apocalypse is disappointing)
performed for Grace Euna Kim at Lake Studios, Berlin ,2019
DanceParty (the apocalypse is disappointing) is part of an ongoing series that explores psychic, symbolic violence, and the body as a site of resistance in crisis.
In this sense violence is examined not only as an invisible socio-political mechanism and condition, but also as a method of resistance and poetic action.
Each blind, morphing, falling character was developed through embodied investigations that unpacked each person as a social and political subject, and that which they wished to rewrite and activate through the microcosm of their own body.
In a sense the work attempts to reconcile the fear and precarity that often derails any possibility of real radical change. Can (imaginary) violence be embraced not as that which threatens or destroys, but that which emancipates and reclaims our collective future? How might violence enable new forms of language, togetherness, and love? How might the ‘fall’ empower, rather than weaken?
Concept and Direction: Grace Euna Kim
Performers(main): Georg Buchheister, Anne-Sophie Debrabant, Vicky Kouvaraki, PatMaslowska, Luisa Spina