THE TWOFOLD PARADOX
Total picture: Zé de Pavia /Pictures: Dieter Hartwig
THE TWOFOLD PARADOX IS A DANCE DUET THAT TRANSLATES CINEMATOGRAPHIC WORKING METHODS AND PROCESSES INTO THE STAGE. BY MEANS OF MOVEMENT, VOICE, SOUND, AND LIGHT, UNRELATED SEQUENCES ARE PRESENTED, WHICH ARE INTENDED TO ENCOURAGE THE AUDIENCE TO MAKE CHAINS OF ASSOCIATIONS IN A KIND OF BIZARRE BROKEN NARRATIVE. THESE SEQUENCES ARE HAPPENING IN TWO FURNISHED MIRRORED ROOMS BUILT ON THE STAGE, IN EACH OF THEM THERE IS A PERFORMER. THE LIGHT EXPOSES THE ACTIONS HAPPENING INSIDE THE ROOMS, PLAYING WITH RHYTHM, AND ACTING AS A LIVE VIDEO EDITOR.
IT’S A PLAY BETWEEN PERCEPTIONS, MEMORY, AND IMAGINATION. TAKING THE AUDIENCE INTO A PERFORMATIVE-FILMIC EXPERIENCE, SHARING THE WAY WE OPERATE IN ORDER TO ENGAGE THEM EMOTIONALLY: THROUGHOUT A PLAYFUL AND MYSTERIOUS EXPERIENCE WE ATTEMPT NOT ONLY TO CHALLENGE THE AUDIENCE'S IMAGINATION BUT ALSO TO QUESTION, THROUGH THE EXPOSURE OF THE MANIPULATION MECHANISMS USED IN THE PERFORMANCE, OF HOW OUR PERCEPTION IS INFLUENCED AND GUIDED BY MEDIA EXPERIENCES.
Concept, choreography, performance: Ixchel Mendoza Hernández | Performance: Enrico Ticconi | Sound design: Malu Peeters | Light design set: Eva G. Alonso | Dramaturgy: Daniel Wittkopp | Outside eye: Olivia Hyunsin Kim | PR: Lilly Schofield | Production management: M.I.C.A. | Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe |
Premiere: November 2018 Berlin, Germany
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IT’S A PLAY BETWEEN PERCEPTIONS, MEMORY, AND IMAGINATION. TAKING THE AUDIENCE INTO A PERFORMATIVE-FILMIC EXPERIENCE, SHARING THE WAY WE OPERATE IN ORDER TO ENGAGE THEM EMOTIONALLY: THROUGHOUT A PLAYFUL AND MYSTERIOUS EXPERIENCE WE ATTEMPT NOT ONLY TO CHALLENGE THE AUDIENCE'S IMAGINATION BUT ALSO TO QUESTION, THROUGH THE EXPOSURE OF THE MANIPULATION MECHANISMS USED IN THE PERFORMANCE, OF HOW OUR PERCEPTION IS INFLUENCED AND GUIDED BY MEDIA EXPERIENCES.
Concept, choreography, performance: Ixchel Mendoza Hernández | Performance: Enrico Ticconi | Sound design: Malu Peeters | Light design set: Eva G. Alonso | Dramaturgy: Daniel Wittkopp | Outside eye: Olivia Hyunsin Kim | PR: Lilly Schofield | Production management: M.I.C.A. | Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe |
Premiere: November 2018 Berlin, Germany
Trailer
Full video (Password by request)