The Gap (2022)
18 steps through (dance) history PART II
Performing dates:
10,11,12 @ 3Våningen, Göteborg (premiere)
EN Drawing on Penkova’s own experience of encountering Western culture as a teenager and later contemporary dance, she attempts to make visible a feeling of constant delay. A kind of temporal gap which she needed to fill, in order to catch up with the timelines of contemporary Western aesthetics. Alternating between silence, music, soundtracks with voices from dance icons and her own reflections on norms and values between East and West, the audience is drawn into an hour long dance-solo with elements of melodrama and humour.
credits:
choreography/text/dance: Liza Penkova
dramaturgical support: Armin Kerber
sound: Håkan Jelk
light: Wannes de Rydt
costume: Liza Winzel
production support/admin: Producentbyrån
reserach/creation residencies 2020-2022 :
3våningen, Göteborg
Konstkollektivet, Mölndal
Vitlycke Art Center, Tanum
Le Boson, Brussels
DCväst, Göteborg
Spinn studio, Göteborg
MDT, Stockholm
Hallen, Farsta
Stora Teatern, Göteborg
My body is a room filled with antiques (2020)
18 steps through (dance) history PART I
In the first part – My body is a room filled with antiques and some late minimalism – the dancer Liza Penkova starts from herself. In the form of an uninterrupted walk, a gradual transformation takes place as Penkova embarks on an impromptu movement dialogue between past and present canonizations, techniques and norms that she experiences have transformed her body into a room filled with antiques and some late minimalism. The goal is to refurnish, update and recycle. Find links, bridges, entrances and exits that can allow other values, expressions to enter. We need the past to reflect on what has come before us and to thereby understand where we are going.
Performance:
- 10-11-12 december 2020 @ 3e Våningen (cancelled)
- 19-20 mars 2021 (cancelled )
Film by Pauline Fonsny:
- coming up 2023
Working periods:
- Le Boson, Bruxelles
- 3e Våningen, Göteborg
- MDT, Stockholm
- Danscentrum Väst
- Farsta/Hallen, Stockholm
- Göteborgs Stad Kulturnämnd
- Konstnärsnämnden