11 Mar '10

What is Lang?

" Lang is a line. Lang is a linear gesture. Lang is
representation.Lang is a constant and circular
representation. Lang is the circular representation of
a linear gesture."

The circularity of this work corresponds to time. Time exists in relation to my existence, therefore time can be subjective. Through this work time is divided into its physical and existential element. The relation that occurs between these two elements determines their universal existing rivalry in life. The dynamic of this rivalry is reflected in nature through the effect of concentric rings on water. This effect was my motivation to create a universal work. Though I wouldn't know how to give such a universality through movement. I chose to stay still as a way of provoking my own ability as a dancer. I rejected my capacity, in order to have my basic movement revealed. But any movement itself is limited without my intervention. I had first to sense this intervention through my consciousness by focusing in time's expansion. The dilation of time through consciousness created a void in which existential time occurred and determined its opposition to physical time. On the other hand physical time always predominates over existential time. " Lang" is concerned with the perpetual expansion of the body. The structure form of D.N.A corresponds to this perpetual intention. The body consists of D.N.A. D.N.A has a twisting form. Therefore the movement would be a twisting one. The twisting movement was finally my selected basic movement. Through twist body parts move circular and doesn't follow the linear movement of physical time, which imposes the straight and forward walking process. Thus the body of the performer moves in continuous turns. The movement and its transformations take place with scholastic precision (frame by frame), compared to organic patterns like the pulse, the breath, the turning of a wheel, the circular movement of dawn and sunrise, the circular movement of life… and death. The body of the performer moves in relation to another body moving as well in continuous turns. Why another body? Because the world exists through the Other. This state is Lang's representation. The relation between the performers could be described in the way twins look alike but no one can tell which one looks like the other. In that sense the two performers are the reflectors of world's reduplication.

Concept and choreography by Kat papageorgiou alias Kat Valastur
Mentoring in Dramaturgy: Guy Cools
Dramaturgy: Nikos Flessas, Marialena Mamareli

Light designer: Nysos Vassilopoulos

Original music score by Antonis Anissego
Performance by Kat Valastur and Nikos Kamontos

Performed at:
Chora Theatre – Athens,12/13/14 November 2008
New European Dance Festival – Prague, 21st of November 2008
15th Kalamata international Dance festival-22 July 2009

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Künstlerhaus Mousoturm

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Kat Valastur

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