adLibdances / Lang

Concept and choreography by Kat Válastur
Mentoring in Dramaturgy: Guy Cools
Dramaturgy: Nikos Flessas, Marialena Mamareli
Light designer: Nysos Vassilopoulos
Original music score by Antonis Anissegos
Performance by Kat Válastur and Nikos Kamontos

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.