Celestine -
heavenly apparitions and other unearthly phenomenae (2018)
alien.
what do we make of that?
what is that strange feeling we feel, when we don’t understand what we encounter?
is that fear? anxiety? or curiosity? excitement perhaps?
and what happens, when you find that; inside?
oh, and how is dance connected to all of this?
what do we make of that?
what is that strange feeling we feel, when we don’t understand what we encounter?
is that fear? anxiety? or curiosity? excitement perhaps?
and what happens, when you find that; inside?
oh, and how is dance connected to all of this?
CELESTINE is a dance science-fiction solo performance. It aims to dismantle the self for the sake of dancing. It is an experimental performative situation, where audiences are invited to witness the negotiation of the performer over form and over meaning.
CELESTINE is corporeal, an alien logic inscribed into the flesh. Embedded, embodied, embroidered arbitrary intelligence. The work addresses the question of the body - how does regarding the body differently changes the way it feels like moving? During the creation process, the work strives to install alternative routes of attention as means to afford to experience the body in a different manner. This difference becomes the gap - a hiccup, a sprain, within which the performer invites the audience to peep through.
CELESTINE is an ongoing effort towards the continuation of research initiated at the Performing Arts Research and Training Studios (PARTS). The work proposes new ways to relate to and to interpret dance per se. I propose to consider dance to be a natural phenomenon, where the dancer is not the master, but only the by-product of the dance. Dance is not there to be tamed, it is there to be hijacked. There is no conquest, only surrender.
CELESTINE is headed towards phantasmagoria, towards new fantasies on dancing. It strives for the creation of new, bold poetics of movement, a dance of future, post-human. In the creation process the maker makes an attempt to purge Dance of himself, letting dance on the loose. It despises theatre, does not become a fiction, does not distil itself into an image, does not banish itself into the virtual. Rejects representation, surrenders to presence, homogenizes the gaze.
CELESTINE is fiction manifest: an embodiment of an impersonal fiction.
CELESTINE is dancing and
DANCE is a force of nature.
photos by János R. Szabó
concept I creation I performance – Patrik Kelemen
lights – Kata Dézsi
guidance – Eszter Gál
feedback – Hein Mortier, Terry Beck
lights – Kata Dézsi
guidance – Eszter Gál
feedback – Hein Mortier, Terry Beck
music – Jeremy Soule - Skyrim Atmospheres; a filetta - Dio vi
salvi Regina,
In Paradisu, Kyrie; Hiroshi Yoshimura - Music For Nine Post Cards
a very special thanks to Lili Raubinek
partners: Sín Arts Center HU, MU Theatre Budapest HU, DeFiguranten Menen BE, Philadelphia Dance Projects US,
National Cultural Fund of Hungary, Zoltan Imre Program, HU
In Paradisu, Kyrie; Hiroshi Yoshimura - Music For Nine Post Cards
a very special thanks to Lili Raubinek
partners: Sín Arts Center HU, MU Theatre Budapest HU, DeFiguranten Menen BE, Philadelphia Dance Projects US,
National Cultural Fund of Hungary, Zoltan Imre Program, HU