Photo: Joris-Jan Bos
On this photo: Megumi Nakamura, Philippa Buckingham
Choreographer: Jiří Kylián
“A journey in time - light and space, addressing the ambiguity of aesthetics - performances and dreams.
Finding beauty in a grimace - in a knot of the mind - or in a physical contortion. It is like trying to perform a balancing act on the string of your umbilical cord.
When does the performing act start? - When we are born or when the curtain rises? - Does it all end when we walk off the stage - or is there no end to the performance?
What is a masquerade? - The clothes we wear in the street or the stage costume?
Between so-called art and artificiality - between the reality of life or fantasy - this twilight zone creates a tension which is of interest to me.
It is like standing on the edge of a dream. Standing in darkness and staring into a sharp light with closed eyes - doubting every bit of our so-called reality.
The moment in which dream intrudes into our lives and life into our dreams - this is the point of my curiosity.
Simply - a feeling of falling down in a dream and waking up with a broken rib.” - Jiří Kylián
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