CONCEPT:
Instead of depicting a single significant instant, our performance piece tries to focus on some constant, steady action and duration. We understand that as an extending of time, a journey through moments which can bring about a hypnotic breakaway from reality and a slip into the current of spectator’s own thoughts. We are especially interested in what lies beyond physicality and how we can reach the deeper meanings of Medusa’s symbolism by turning this ancient mythological figure into dance.
Just as Medusa’s look turns to stone anyone who looks at her, so would want we, in our dance, to capture the given moment, mood; to keep still that which is and extend it into eternity. It seems that this particular snippet of time is the safest and we cling onto it the way everybody clings onto something in their lives: some idea about existence, relationship, matter, money (?) …