{"id":1737,"date":"2016-07-13T12:29:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T09:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.dance.lv\/eng\/?p=1433"},"modified":"2018-03-20T13:38:39","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T11:38:39","slug":"the-dictionary-of-our-bodily-stereotypes-about-hardly-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dance.lv\/eng\/the-dictionary-of-our-bodily-stereotypes-about-hardly-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"The dictionary of our bodily stereotypes. About “Hardly Ever”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0D?rta Ceri?a*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Why do we eat avocado, if it does not have any flavor?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

It is everywhere!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Bananas. They are nice.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Our preset notions and reputed opinions are like avocado<\/i><\/span> – tasteless fruits with buttery texture, which green an<\/span>d porous<\/span> bark we usually peel an<\/span>d<\/span> throw away in the litter.<\/i> Therefore, the bone of avocado <\/span>– chestnut brown core<\/span> d<\/span>oes not give any gastronomical pleasure; it belongs to other re<\/span>d<\/span>undant components in recycle bin. However, why<\/span> d<\/span>o we eat it? Why<\/span> d<\/span>o we make sala<\/span>d<\/span>s using only the valuable part of it? In addition, can we answer to those questions that in every<\/span> d<\/span>ay we make mute? Moreover – do our stereotypes an<\/span>d<\/span> notions exist only in our linguistic nature? Maybe patterns of them hide in our bodies? These questions highlighte<\/span>d<\/span> choreographer<\/span>\u00a0 Francesco Scavetta and Norwegian contemporary<\/span> d<\/span>ance company Wee<\/i> in their newest performance Hardly ever,<\/i> which was presente<\/span>d<\/span> at<\/span> da<\/span>nce house Zirgu pasts<\/span> d<\/span>uring the festival Time to<\/i><\/span> d<\/span><\/i>ance<\/span><\/i> (Laiks<\/i><\/span> d<\/span><\/i>ejot<\/span><\/i>). At the performance Har<\/i><\/span>d<\/span><\/i>ly ever<\/span><\/i> you can look as a miniature avocado<\/i> dictionary, which you cannot rea<\/span>d<\/span>, instead<\/span> – use through bodily experience.<\/span><\/p>\n

Artists of the<\/span> dance company Wee<\/i> transforms individual and collective experience an<\/span>d<\/span> represents it by using elements of dance, release<\/i> technique,<\/i> movement theatre and improvisation, that are recreated and synthesized into refreshing, wise and youthful aesthetics. The dramaturgy of performance was create<\/span>d<\/span> by Sasha Bozic, who did compile many pieces of etudes, creating small micronarratives that are working independently and separately, and at the same time they are interacting into centripetal direction with purposefulness and pleasantry. The performance Hardly ever<\/i> continues to research the relationship between lies and truth on stage an of stage, that the company started in 2009 with performance Sincerely yours<\/i>. In Riga shown performance,<\/i><\/span> Scavetta chose to confront verbal notifications, questions, commentaries with physical responses, remarks that recreates new kaleidoscope of pop culture from quotes an emblematic signs as part of our experience per se<\/i>. Four charismatic an<\/span>d<\/span> engaging dancers<\/span>-performers<\/span> (Gry Kipperberg, Erikk McKenzie,\u00a0Sigrid Marie Vesaas, Thomas Vantuycom) are constantly discussing their own work, outplays reality, fiction and fantasy<\/span> – this allows to connect audience to their own associative thought process, continuously asking to ourselves the basic rule of avocado<\/i> dictionary: “Do you believe in what I say or in what I show?”<\/span><\/p>\n

*D?rta Ceri?a<\/strong> studies audiovisual arts at the Latvian Academy of Culture. Longer article analyzing performance “Hardly Ever” was written in Latvian and is published here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

*The article has been written during\u00a0the LAB 4 of The Writing Movement Network that took place in Riga, Latvia during Time to Dance festival in June 2016.\u00a0The Writing Movement Network is supported by The Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture Short-term network scheme.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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