Beschreibung
program notes
“The more that you can let go of your control, and give it over to a kind of transparency in the body, a feeling of disappearance, the more you will be able to grasp differentiated form… It is as if you are trying to divest your body of movement, as opposed to thinking that you’re producing movement. Like leaving your body in space, instead of pushing forward into and invading space. It’s dissolution, letting yourself evaporate. Movement is a factor of the fact that you actually are evaporating.”
-William Forsythe [in Kinetic Isometries]
„you actually are evaporating“ is the direct result of my study and practice in the field of dance. The piece is not as much about the movement which is accessed once the body allows itself to become transparent as it is about the very act of becoming transparent. It is the searching for and gradual opening up to this transparency. It is the dissipating, divesting, evaporating body. Evaporation is the opposite of dematerialization: it is the opening up of
one’s own materiality to the profusion of extracorporeal, sui generis material. It is both the becoming-body of the body and the bodily remainder left behind in the wake of its own effacement. It is the matter contained within the evaporated body; an ecology of openings.
