Review/Description of Europe in Motion 22 April
The original text is in Dutch, and is at http://springdance.ning.com/profiles/blogs/europe-in-motion-woensdag-22 and was written by Lotte Wijers.
I dumped the text into Google Translate and this is what came out. I am very happy indeed that I have a serious bottom.
An evening of Development Europe in Motion provides a diverse program. In the triple bill on Wednesday, were performances of Liat Waysbort, Simon Ellis and Vava Stefanescu.
Waysbort (Netherlands / Israel) was Re-dreaming the work with four dancers and a huge white knuffelbeer “(without the face he is not very cuddly can not). The show has been shortened for this program. As the title suggests, the presentation of a dream-like structure. It is released abruptly switched between moods, attitudes or movement phrases. Every time it seems to be anecdotal, runs Waysbort a whole other direction, so as in a dream can not quite follow. But not in an annoying way.
The second performance, Down, is Simon Ellis from Great Britain / New Zealand. It is a solo that he performs a lecture-preformance. He tells about his work-in-progress, with a powerpoint presentation to support. He says that a bicycle and a dance in it, while he is indeed next to a bicycle. He goes to the bike, drive forward, put his bike lock and does a dance. After riding it back to his laptop and is the powerpoint presentation, complete with a review of the piece, audience experience, technical data and contact and tour information. An interesting self-reflexive performance with lots of humor and self-mockery, but also a serious bottom.
The third and final performance of Vava Stefanescu from Romania. In Quartet for a microphone are three performers trapped in a phone booth, where the audience sits around it. The women and a man running around each other, sit together and try gepropt another (comfortable?) Attitude to be found. The sounds they make in the cell are sometimes reinforced by a microphone and sampled. The windows of the cabin take their breath. The atmosphere is claustrophobic. In contrast to his occasional snippets of songs, such as Baby Love. At the end of a performer draws a portion of the ceiling glitter and scattering it over himself and the others go. Eventually one of the women get the doors open. The performers remain in the cell are. I am not sure what I should in any case, calls the performance a feeling of tightness and closeness to.
