A performance about people whom Europe first turns into spectres in order to be able to integrate them into its symbolic universe. Choreographer Arkadi Zaides and his collaborators have created one of the very best examples of documentary contemporary performing arts.<\/p>\n
Upon the invitation of journalist, dance theoretician and historian Jean-Marc Adolphe in 1992, the Cit\u00e9 Universitaire student campus in Paris held a summer art laboratory under the title SKITE, where a group of diverse choreographers and other artists met. Vera Mantero and Santiago Sempre gave a statement upon this occasion, stating that it has become impossible to dance due to the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. They had decided for their bodies to stand still. Other artists from this same lab also took unusual creative paths to react to the impotence of international political and diplomatic institutions. In recent history, this is one of the first examples of breaking with a systemic exclusion of dance from its political context and its (lack of) responsibility towards the time in which it is created.<\/p>\n
Arkadi Zaides is an artist who understands his work as an ethical responsibility of the dancer, choreographer or body action artist towards the political and human time of our common global life and has for this reason been on our list of potential CoFestival guests for a number of years. Necropolis is an anthological example of documentary work in the field of contemporary choreographic and theatrical practices, because the performing arts have succeeded in ensuring the dignity of the human voice beyond moralising, didacticism, legal practices, scientific analyticity or investigative journalism. Necropolis choreographs the voice of conscience to raise the question: who were the captives of a statistical monster that counts \u00bbmore than 60,000 lives?\u00ab Who were the people who, for reasons of war, economic or cultural, went to Europe in search of a time in which life would have been possible, but lost it just outside its borders? Who were the people who will never become acquaintances from next door?<\/p>\n
Concept and direction: Arkadi Zaides
\nDramaturgy, text and voice: Igor Dobri\u010di\u0107
\nResearch and choreography assistant: Emma Gioia
\nSculpture: Moran Sanderovich
\n3D modelling: Mark Florquin
\nAvatar animation: Jean Hubert
\nAnimation assistant: Thibaut Rostagnat
\nSound design: Asl\u0131 Kobaner
\nLighting design: Jan Mergaert
\nTechnical director: Etienne Exbrayat
\nGrave location search: Andrea Costa, Ans Van Gasse, Arkadi Zaides, Benjamin Pohlig, Bianca Frasso, Carolina-Maria Van Thillo, Prof. Dr Christel Stalpaert, Doreen Kutzke, Dorsa Kavoosi, Eleonora Soriente, Elisa Franceschini, Elvura Quesada, Emma Gioia, Eva Maes, Filippo Furri, Flavia Dalila D’Amico, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Pouillaude, Friederike K\u00f6tter, Gabriel Smeets, Giorgia Mirto, Gosia Juszczak, Igor Dobri\u010di\u0107, Ilka Van Bijlen, Jordy Minne, Joris Van Imschoot, Julia Asperska, Juliana Andrea Tapiero Polan\u00eda, Juliane Beck, Katia Gandolfi, Katja Seitajoki, Lilas Forissier, Lina Gilani Tsitouri, Lovis Heuss, Luca Lotano, Lucille Haddad, Maite Zabalza, Manuel Lavecchia, Maria Sierra Carretero, Mercedes Roldan, Myriam Van Imschoot, Myrto Katsiki, Nevena Deli\u0107, Osnat Kelner, \u00d6zge Atm\u0131\u015f, Pepa Torres Perez, Sarah Leo, Selby Jenkins, Simge G\u00fcc\u00fck, Solveig Gade, Sunniva Vik\u00f8r Egenes, Tamara Vajd\u00edkov\u00e1, Tilemachos Tsolis, Valeria Povolo, Victoria Columba, Yannick Bosc, Yari Stilo
\nData collected for Slovenia by Ur\u0161ula Lipovec \u010cebron, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana; Uro\u0161 \u0160kerl, O\u0161tro; Marijana Hamer\u0161ak, Institute of Ethnology and Folklore, Zagreb.
\nAdministration and production: Simge G\u00fcc\u00fck \/ Institut des Croisements
\nInternational distribution: Something Great
\nCo-production: Theatre de la Ville (FR), Montpellier Danse 40 Bis (FR), Charleroi Danse (BE), CCN2 Centre chor\u00e9graphique national de Grenoble (FR), les ballets C de la B(BE), Tanz im August \/ HAU Hebbel am Ufer (DE), La Filature \u2013 Sc\u00e8ne nationale de Mulhouse (FR)<\/p>\n
* This performance is in English.
\nOrganised by: Kino \u0160i\u0161ka and NDA Slovenia
\nFree entry","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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