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This is a study about the journey of the figure of Psyche into Hell (from Apuleio’s novel - Eros and Psyche). The choreography is an intimate, visual and physical discourse of a lonely female figure, lost in the power of her own mental labyrinth. She travels in an environment of inner dark visions, attempts of controlling emotions and wild search of freedom.
(PSYCHE’s relations with the symbolic and physical elements of Pina Bausch are emerging as an underneath inspiration from "Die Klage der Kaiserin", a film directed by Bausch in 1989.In this film the power of the images are creating an emotional dramaturgy and the most inner human desires or struggles are made "danceable".
The performance PSYCHE does not directly uses the material of the film of Pina Bausch as point of departure or reference, like approached in recently popular work models as re-enecment, recycling and re-construction of dance material. But PSYCHE underlines that artists as Pina Bausch still find their resonance within recent choreographic creations.)
Credits:
choreography: Gabriella Maiorino
dance: Valentina Campora
music: Andy Moor, Yannis Kyriakides
Length: 15min
A production of Dansmakers Amsterdam in collaboration with Paradiso, Amsterdam and Danslab, Den Haag (NL)
Performance list:
28 May 2011 – Opening of DMA new location North (NL)
June 2011 – presentation for the Turkish delegation at Dansmakers Amsterdam (NL)
7 July 2011 – at the Film House of The Hague, première of the 3D film Pina (NL)
8th & 9th July 2011 – I LIKE TO WATCH TOO, in Paradiso, Amsterdam (NL)
28 August 2011 - Uitmarkt Amsterdam, Museumplein stage – Paradiso (NL)
28 January 2012 - Invito di Sosta, Teatro Comunale Castiglion Fiorentino (IT)
Danslab The Hague is a research initiative for artistic development and exchange in contemporary choreography and dance. It is an artist driven initiative: the artists themselves create a program of researches, exchange activities and presentations. The program links individual researches to the field and explores broader artistic topics concerning the development of contemporary dance. It also develops an open source for artistic knowledge by documenting, archiving and sharing processes and insights. Danslab creates an arena where transparent communication, reflection, mutual support and new models of work formats and collaboration are encouraged.
Danslab supports the development of the freelance work force; is interested in choreographers that are strongly aware of the own role in the field and from out there find new ways and relations that stimulate the possibilities of the discipline.
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