Performances / Opening of the Kaleidoscope of Culture
Within the Kaleidoscope of Culture, theatre, as a combination of performing and visual arts, communicates with the audience at new, unique locations, giving the significant social issues it deals with an entirely new perspective.
Here are the plays we will have an opportunity to see within the opening of the Kaleidoscope of Culture programme arch at the theatre stage in the District from 1 to 4 September:
The performance ‘Unreliable Narrator’ / 1 September at 8 p.m.
The physicality of the high intelligence possessed by Satoshi Kudo reflects the historical experiences of living. A performance where the audience is confronted with Kudo’s pure presence, reaching the horizon and inviting self-reflection of hidden depth and beauty. The performance lays bare the shamanism within the body and the confrontation with another essence and another side of oneself. The body moves back and forth in the landscape of sound, being the sensation of an accelerated recording of the passage of time expressed through the art of dance. There will be some elements, like Kudo’s theory of movement ‘Motion Qualia’, which links one’s own instinct as a reflex through the relationship with gravity and brain activity. And his long research of sculptural form speaks its own language in the choreography where even condensed breath brings the power of silence. The term suggests a way to understand time as the flow of a circle instead of the concept of black or white. Kudo believes that awareness of the truth in the unseen is the key to living.
Choreography and performance: Satoshi Kudo
Dance performance ‘SOFIA’ / 1 September at 9 p.m.
The play questions the human mind and its seemingly limited capacity to recognise the fact that it is sabotaging its future. Based on questioning the ideas about people and their connection to what surrounds them technologically and organically, Felix Landerer plays with the idea of a recognised human catalogue of movement and connection. The ideas of what we can adapt to, what belongs and what does not belong to us, set the parameters for his approach to the subject.
Performance ‘Unlonely Recluse Solo on the Line’ / 2 September at 8 p.m.
From the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in Serbia, being in contact with friends and colleagues, diverse ‘materials’ were produced and accumulated as a product of relation between concern and care. They turned the dance into floating. They are part of the choreography and act like waves. When it comes to form, it is a solo dance performance, but in general, it is an attempt at meditation. ‘Unlonely Recluse Solo on the Line’ is in relationship with spaces, bodies, feeling and thoughts through movement and sound.
Concept, performance, sound: Jelena Alempijević
Projection: Željka Jakovljević
Costume designer: Nataša Vranešević
Performance ‘Parte Parte’ / 2 September
‘Parte Parte’ is a dance duo that looks at the bigger picture of the space being dissolved and established between two worlds, the one we experience here and the one that has shaped us and our bodies beyond our caution and awareness.
Performance ‘Vanishing Point’ / 3 September
Fragmented and incomplete at the edges of life, the body seems to be both an attainable goal and an unattainable destination. In ‘Vanishing Point’, a humanoid being awakens from the depths of a harrowing memory or alien future. Is this science fiction, or a nightmare come true? The stage is transformed into a reflection of existence through which the deepest fears are distorted, with images drawn from the human condition itself.
Concept: Constantine Skourlis, Dafin Antoniadou, and Alexandros Vardaxoglou
Choreography: Dafin Antoniadou and Alexandros Vardaxoglou
Music: Constantine Skourlis and Stephan Richter
Production: Onassis Stegi Foundation
Performance ‘Metronomy’ / 3 September
Choreographer: Tamara Gvozdenović, production: Belgrade Dance Institute
We build our common future considering contrasts: Construction against deconstruction, parallel, crowd against loneliness, in between, negative space, shadow, body shift, change of space, change of perception and perspective.
Dance peace ‘Things Move but They Do Not Say Anything’ / 4 September at 8 p.m.
The ‘Things Move but They Do Not Say Anything’ is a dance piece based on the ideas of persistence and perseverance. The sound for the piece contains amplified sounds produced by the dancers on stage. The piece relies on the processes of transformation and repetition found in nature, but, at the same time, it avoids any attempt to represent these phenomena figuratively. The ‘Things Move but They Do Not Say Anything’ is a full-length choreography that is radically rooted in real time, in the live presence of the women themselves. It is a piece about equally resistant and persistent bodies, the bodies exposed to unpredictable, diverse, and intense forces. It is about female bodies that rely on a mutual heritage of resistance and presence in this turbulent world.
Idea and choreography: Poliana Lima
Ballet performance ‘La La La’ / 4 September at 9 p.m.
Choreographer: Sasha Evtimova
Music evokes feelings, memories, longings, dreams, nostalgia, and a sentimental longing for happiness, for the time we lived in and the people we shared those memories with. Nothing can revive time, memory or memories like a good old cassette.
Photo: Promo