MONOTANGO STEREO

By and with Alicja Ziolko and Ian Sutton
Lightdesign Davood Kheradmand and Taha El Ouaer

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“ It takes two to tango…”

Does it take two to be lonely?

An impossible, improbable couple with whom everything could become possible.
To proceed a , contract and counter-action is necessary.

“I do not
remember names.
Only bodies. I read bodies.”
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Monotango Stereo looks on the dual actions of two single dancing bodies in a dance for two, the guiding and following part in all of us, the feminine and masculine, and the dialogue between them.

The language of the performance is a research and challenge between  dancetheatre and tango in which we seek the unexpected and the surprising within the obsessive, tight structure of tango.
The question is how to emerge from a static conflict to a communication that moves?

The performance examines some of the clichés of tango in order to take them apart; other elements – the elegance and precision of movement contact are taken into consideration and developed in another way.

Monotango Stereo invites the public after the performance to participate in a milonga (dance-evening) on stage. And the bar is open.
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With the support of Arts Council Norway and Found for performing artists Norway

Thanks to the following, who have collaborated and contributed to this project:
Heidrun Kaletsch, Katja von der Ropp, Emiliano Campagnola, Martin Beeretz, Olaf Giesbrecht,  Claudio Corrivetti. Kari Gjerde, Davood Kheradmand, Janusz Ziolko, Colosseo Teatro Nuovo, EUTHECA Roma

26 and 27 February 2011 7:30 pm,  Scenehuset – Oslo
Bogstadveien 49  (vis-a-vis Jacob Aalls café)

TICKETS: kr 150,-
mail: monotango@alicjaziolko.com / sms: (+47) 90 100 777

http://monotango.wordpress.com/

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Alicja

Invitation to preview friday 26 february 2010 – 9 pm
We cordially invite you to our open rehearsal of PHIMALE – A MONOTANGO, a dance-theatre performance in cooperation between Berlin, Oslo and Rome.

Kollatino Underground
Via Georges Sorel 10, 00177 Roma
www.kollatinounderground.org

I do not
remember names.
Only bodies. I read bodies.
Every body is an open theatre.
PHIMALE opens the search for ourselves and for a counterpart, the individual loneliness and the endless repetition of the play of gender roles. What is identity? What makes a man a man, and woman a woman? The performer draws biographical elements and combines danced and told stories of different encounters and separations.

Life inscribes its history in a body. Face, mimic, gesture, posture and motion pattern are the texture of a lived life. What does our body tell about us? What do the others know? What do they read within our body, our movements? Do we know our own biography?

Alicja

And yesterday: First run-through. 55minutes.  Now Five days to work on it.

Alicja

Alicja

Martin has left us with 3 lightbulbs for stage front, the middle in version “aufzug”(possible to take regulate), and general light.

Emiliano trying out projections and idea with overtitles.

Olaf is with us. “I can provide sounds for emergency, if electricity goes down.” If we behave well.

Sunday, today, day off.

Alicja

Today: the Bodymapping II – evolution of text, when material around has changed… what not to explain, but project with inner images.

Arrival of the chairs.

Martin last day of montage before he comes back next sunday. Tomorrow Olaf, the sound-designer, arrives!

Alicja

All for now, over and out… sleeping must be done,
Alicja