EVE: Elisabeth Borgermans + Kinga Jaczewska

Zäsur is a choreographic exploration of desire and desolation, musically propelled by waves of Mahler and Metal. A female performer looks at a distant and near past and, in a search for insight, enters into a dialogue with, among others, Gustav Mahler, Friedrich Hölderlin, Rosa Luxemburg, Yvonne Rainer, Straub/Huillet and experimental metal genres. As she moves in and out of the choreographic space, the audience is invited to follow her in a labyrinth of intensity and distance, intimate and distant situations. She always asks herself: “Why did it happen this way and not otherwise?”.

Zäsur’s aesthetic and artistic point of departure is the question: ‘What is the function of a rupture, understood as a moment in a process of change?’ Fractures or shifts manifest themselves in time; in an individual, in a history, in a social or political context. Dancing and thinking through different personal, artistic and theoretical perspectives, Zäsur thus explores the possible meanings, bodily experiences, feelings and movements of the specific impact of a rupture. This creates a characteristic and intriguing movement language, navigating between aesthetic formalism and brutality.

Inspired by Butoh and by Dance of Darkness. By modern dance pioneers such as Mary Wigman and Pola Nirenska. Fed by the process of grief - 'Gabriel' is a short solo work created by Kinga Jaczewska with which, by allowing the inner to speak, she tries to release the body from the rigorous and the rational. Turning towards emotion, expression and intuition, 'Gabriel' is a response to Jaczewska's journey through mourning and personal loss.