| The love piece |
Ana Achimovicz, Nino Bokan, Alice Chauchat, Pravdan Devlahovic, Oliver Frljic, Zvonimir Kvesic, Ivana Pavlovic, Ivana Roncevic, Nina Sakic, Una Vizek
|
The Love Piece is an invitation to experience the performance as an affective encounter, and vice-versa, the encounter as a performative experience. Deciding that the focus of performance is "giving love" says a lot about our desires for theatre; theatre as a social place, performance as a moment of encounter and change, performance as the production of a reality that could either be understood as real or fictional, but in any case that happens. Tension and dramaturgy are produced through the attempt to stay within this situation for a certain period of time and to deal with our affective production.
The love piece unfolds along a loose score that can be described as: there are as many audience members as performers. It happens in a room that has no strong art or performance innuendoin the conventional sense, so that the unusual format doesn't appear as a break away from more usual performance formats, thus leaving open the potential of a fresh experience. As they come in, audience members are each taken by the hand by a performer, who for the duration of the show (about 30 minutes) "give love" to his/her audience. What such a love can be, is the stake of the piece.
Love songs are playing the whole time.
Audience reports:
|
||
Production: Eksperimentalna slobodna scena
Co-production: Student Center –Culture of Change, Zagreb
The project is supported by: French Institut in Zagreb, Goethe Institut in Zagreb, Zagreb City Council, Ministry of Culture of Republic of Croatia, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Republic of Germany and Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Republic of France.
TRIATLON (2005– 2007) is a three-year collaborative project in the field of contemporary dance and theatre of movement in which Croatia, France and Germany are participating. It is concieved as an intensive cultural and artistic cooperation between Croatian dance and theatre organizations and invited French and German dance artists and theoreticians in the frame of workshop exchange of dance knowledge and expertise until the final work on the process of future dance and theatre productions of invited authors and Croatian dance and performing artists.