dance performance (2018)
"Air".
Performance that strikes the public with its moral, physical and aesthetic risk. "AIR" as a short miniature became the winner of the Young choreographers' contest during the CONTEXT festival. Diana Vishneva 2017 (Moscow).
"AIR" as a short miniature became the winner of the Young choreographers' contest during the CONTEXT festival. Diana Vishneva 2017 (Moscow). It was also shown in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Hamburg, Bern, Vitebsk at IFMC-18, etc. The premiere of the full-length performance by Olga Labovkina and KARAKULI DANCE THEATER on September 8 and 9, 2018 was a great success.
In this artwork we are playing with the idea of air, treating it in different semantic ways.
Air as a symbol is an information matrix for an entity that is about to become real. Spirit. Here, this entity has no physical qualities. Here "something" becomes itself. Air in this sense is a restless space of options that requires filling it with an action.
We are also taking into consideration the strong psychosomatic connection with this concept. You can not get tired to breathe ... or forget, or change your mind ... Phrases "I need it like the air", "I breathe you," etc. reflect this connection on a metaphorical level. Through the body we come to understanding air as the space of aspirations, the space of inner freedom.
What remains if the air is running out? Together with the characters of the play, we find ourselves in a certain conditional reality, where the space-time and cause-effect relationships are broken. This is a kind of end of time, the point at which we are already dead, all things are done, missions are fulfilled. What's next?
Statement: Olga Labovkina
Artists: Olga Labovkina, Aleksandr Fillipov, Ivan Sachkov.
Sound design: Dmitriy Lades | AORTHA.
visualisation: Sergey Novickiy.
Duration: 70 min.