Trebuchet
A performance of re-charging, losing control and embracing uncertainty. Going under the water and floating up again. Dancing disorientation.
Trebuchet is a practice of re-charging, a practice of losing control and coexisting with the challenge of not knowing, a practice of going under the water and floating up again. The performers initiate an extrovert play to approach unfamiliarity and discomfort by mapping a propelled body. One that traces a trajectory in space and time and is used as a driving force for movement and a resource of impulses. They continuously engage in the practice of throwing themselves into a problematic temporality, as a constant feedback of both randomized and methodic notation written instantly to discover variable stages of an anomalous realism. Propelling a body to accept and endure disorganization, to embody uncontrollable forces, to expose irregularity, and to provide a certain ambiguity. While moving through containing and releasing a desire, they find comfort in the discomfort of unpredictability and paradoxically dancing disorientation. They become self-sustaining power plants with their own ways of enduring and compensating resistance by propelling towards it and giving in to a resilient body that is observatory, interruptive, and agile.
Working group
- Choreography: Avgoustina Triarou (Artistic thesis)
- Performers: Chen Nadler, Sointu Saraste and Maria Chrysostomou
- Dramaturgy: Juti Saari
- Sound design: Tuukka Haapakorpi
- Lighting design: Elias Klark
- Costume design: Meri Craig
- Producer: Yesol Lim
Trebuchet is a practice of re-charging, a practice of losing control and coexisting with the challenge of not knowing, a practice of going under the water and floating up again. The performers initiate an extrovert play to approach unfamiliarity and discomfort by mapping a propelled body. One that traces a trajectory in space and time and is used as a driving force for movement and a resource of impulses. They continuously engage in the practice of throwing themselves into a problematic temporality, as a constant feedback of both randomized and methodic notation written instantly to discover variable stages of an anomalous realism. Propelling a body to accept and endure disorganization, to embody uncontrollable forces, to expose irregularity, and to provide a certain ambiguity. While moving through containing and releasing a desire, they find comfort in the discomfort of unpredictability and paradoxically dancing disorientation. They become self-sustaining power plants with their own ways of enduring and compensating resistance by propelling towards it and giving in to a resilient body that is observatory, interruptive, and agile.
Working group
- Choreography: Avgoustina Triarou (Artistic thesis)
- Performers: Chen Nadler, Sointu Saraste and Maria Chrysostomou
- Dramaturgy: Juti Saari
- Sound design: Tuukka Haapakorpi
- Lighting design: Elias Klark
- Costume design: Meri Craig
- Producer: Yesol Lim