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Record of ancient things
« Through three choreographic scenarios – the stage, the club and the arena, we reflect upon our capacity and desire to be seen, and in action.
Record of ancient things looks at the performative act. Not just in the word’s meaning of representation but also in its functional and competitive incarnations. The three scenarios are played out in a transparent, glimmering space that allows us to see in it the classical stage, the shimmering club and the flashing cameras of a stadium; all platforms emblematic to the human performance.
The stage presents the opportunity for the spectacular desire to defy gravity. Through a series of reinterpreted jump solos “all at once”, performers who barely manage to sustain their individual trajectory and highly egocentric agenda repeatedly inundate the stage.
In a groove of accumulation, the club scene evolves and transforms its disciplined community into an overindulgent baroque frenzy. Pushing and pulling, they again change their game and reconfigure the stage for competition.
The direction is clear, the agenda even more single minded. The continual performance of a single task reduces us to the level of a machine. Through a morphing series of sport vocabulary, the dance in the arena redefines again the group’s repeated efficiency of performance.
Lost in their continued search for self-fulfillment they leave in search of yet another “world stage”. »
Source : Petter Jacobsson and Thomas Caley
