ZPA - Agrebacki Plesni Ansambl

UNDER THE EYELIDS

Stage performance created together with and for ZPA, Agrebacki Plesni Ansambl, in cooperation with ZeKaeM and MSU in Croatia, 2011.

Seven dancers, seven dreams, seven wishes, seven possible conclusions, seven attempts to deconstruct identity.

CREDITS|
Concept and direction by Laura Aris Alvarez
Created with and performed by Sara Barbieri, Petra Chelfi, Elvis Hodžić, Zrinka Lukčec, Aleksandra Mišić, Martina Nevistić, Ognjen Vučinić
Music by Samir Kadribašić, Johann Sebastian Bach
Direction Assistance by Jorge Jáuregui Allue
Costumes by Emina Kušan
Lighting Design by Saša Fistrić
Sound by Kruno Miljan
Lighting by Saša Bogojević, Marinko Maričić Miš
Photography by Maja Kljaić
Artistic Direction and Production by Snježana Abramović Milković
Executive Production by Petra Glad
with the support of the Zagreb City Office for Culture, Education and Sport and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia

This piece researches Desire and the tensions it creates. Desire claims life, pleasure, self-fulfilment, and freedom as much as it causes frustration, denial, fear, and disappointment. We live in a society that is in discord with nature - trapped in domestic comforts, keeping control, or following the rules that someone else set up. Are we ready to dive into the unknown? We might be civilised, but our needs might not be.

"SHE SAYS: THIS PLACE IS DREADFUL, BUT I CAN'T AGREE WITH HER"...

PETRA: There’s nothing but yourself and the waiting to become yourself. Everything is peaceful but exciting. Everything is quiet but alive. Everything is happening but unseen, like growing grass.

SARA: Under the eyelids, there is a person. The little person that lives in a big body. Somehow, it is dark there. Not a bad dark, but dark. You can hear the beat—a constant beat with changing rhythm. Rhythm brings colour to the surroundings. Red is the dominant one. There are a lot of liquids. Everything is full of moisture. You can slide everywhere. The little person enjoys it very much. She is losing her days searching for places to slide. Sometimes, she wanders into the points of insecurity. Then, she is curious but not afraid. It's her house, after all.

KIKO: Street. The lighting from the night lamp. Reflection in the window of the house that I am passing through.
Steps. It is a game of fingers on the neck of the saxophone. Flowing sounds through the night. My gaze is attached to the box and reflected by the light on the coin. Untied laces, corner of pants touching the shoes. I love that style. The smoke of the cigarette. Red lipstick. Night and story. I have to remember that. A garbage bin and mess everywhere.
The only free friends of the night, their eyes are shiny, homeless dogs - howling.

MARTINA: Trammels.work.brain.body.connection.imagination.fantasy.freedom.personal.unique.mine.yours.matrix.system.jump over.information.will.wish.collective.harmony.beat.rhythm.uncontrolled.autonomous. Trammels in personal freedom of our own system, jumping by a rhythm of wishes.

ALEX: There are things that you don’t want to talk about—something about feelings which you recognise within you.
Some projection or visualisation about the following action. Things that are gone, and you would like to recover the emotion. Subconscious actions. New possibilities. Nature. Another perception. Making yourself in/visible. Opposition. Truth.

ELVIS: Dark, dream, disturbed, hell, incorrect, mad, clean cut, ice, teeth, cold, death, sleeping song, hug, sex, mess, run, fun, done, flashback, spotlight, heat, meat, bone, dust, drug, desire, portal, choice.

(ESPAÑOL)

ZPA - Agrebacki Plesni Ansambl

UNDER THE EYELIDS / Bajo Los Párpados

Un espectáculo commisionado por ZPA, Agrebacki Plesni Ansambl en cooperación con ZeKaeM y MSU, en Croacia 2011.

Esta pieza se adentra en el concepto de deseo y las tensiones que crea. El deseo reivindica vida, placer, plenitud, libertad, pero también causa frustración, negación, miedo o decepción. Vivimos en una sociedad que está en desacuerdo con la naturaleza, atrapada en la comodidad doméstica de mantener control, siguiendo unas reglas establecidas y en muchos casos impuestas desde el subconsciente.
¿Estamos listos para sumergirnos en lo desconocido? Podemos ser civilizados, pero nuestras necesidades muchas veces no lo son.

Siete bailarines. Siete sueños, siete deseos, siete posibles conclusiones, siete intentos de deconstruir la identidad.

Sé que es peligroso aventurarse a acariciarte y por eso dudo,
justo cuando mis dedos están a punto de tocarte.
Aun así me lanzo, temeraria y lujuriosa, a pasear mis dedos sin mesura
a sabiendas de que en la oscuridad,
el naufragio puede llegar sin previo aviso.