Material: dance poem . eggs . silence
...
when an egg is broken by inside force, life begins;
... when an egg is broken by outside force, life ends.
"light
things + dark things is a choreographed
ninety-minute action that is bare of any sound additions. Arranged as an
installation in which the boundary between the action filled stage space and
the “untouched” audience space disappears.
The
audience enters the site of the action where the objects and the dancers move
and are being moved in their immediate form of being-there and being-such. The
piece has no theatrical beginning, as it is all about the essence of things,
whose existence does not only arise at the moment of the performance.
The two brilliant performers relate power to
powerlessness and examine their respective mechanisms in a playful as well as
insidious reverse game. Typical associations (power and strength /
powerlessness and weakness) are rescinded and turned upside down. In her latest
piece, Andrea K. Schlehwein reveals the attraction of interpersonal disruption
that takes place at the carnal boundary of the body and penetrates deep down to
the bones. What is destroyed and remains destroyed in the violent interaction
is nevertheless impalpable, as the human being's capacity for physical
regeneration is more reliable than its resilience.
light
things + dark things is a highly intense,
emotionally challenging dance poem that offers a courageous and ultimately
conciliatory look at our (inter)personal abysses."
Credits
Artistic
Direction . Choreography . Scenography
Andrea
K. Schlehwein
Dance . Creation NETZWERK
AKS
Jye Hwei Lin
Woo Sang Jeon . Aureliusz Rys
Assistant
Unita
Gay Galiluyo
Photos
Andrea K. Schlehwein
. Anja Pagua . Sunčan Stone . Drago Videmsek
Performances
@ART
SPACE stift millstatt . Austria
@+MSUM,
Museum for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana Slovenia
@ Festival UKREP
Ljubljana Slovenia
Production
büro
für tanz | theater | produktionen 2021 . 2022
www.andreakschlehwein.com . www.netzwerkaks.blogspot.com
