Affected
1. An ostentatious display of being, which is not natural; to feign feelings
2. To accomplish something through a physical change; to touch
3. To have or to take on this or that form.
Affect also signifies: impression of elementary attraction or repulsion which is at the base of affectivity (emotions, feelings, passions, etc.)
Affected is about three solos for three women of the same age, set to the music of Gustav Mahler. The piece is dealing with the identity of these women confronted by the sense of their own finiteness, while bringing them face to face with their own solitude. I use the word finite as an expression of everything that is fleeting, of loss and extinction. The dance is focused particularly on the rite of passage that sanction the different phases of life: from childhood to the fall (loss of innocence, disappointments); and then on the passage between the fall and the future (visualizing one’s own old age and death). My approach to the choreography is purely physical. I am not looking to achieve realism. Rather, I want to maintain a sense of affectation, that is the lack of naturalism in the manner of acting.
« Il y a un tragique quotidien qui est bien plus réel, bien plus profond et bien plus conforme à notre être véritable que les tragiques des grandes aventures. Il est facile de le sentir, mais il n'est pas aisé de le montrer, parce que ce tragique essentiel n'est pas simplement matériel ou psychologique. » M. Maeterlinck
Credits
Choreography Claire Croizé Dance Varinia Canto Vila, Mariana Garzon Garcia and Claire Godsmark Music Gustav Mahler: The Kindertotenlieders, Des Knaben Wunderhorn, Symphony n°II: Resurrection and Symphony n° V: the Adagietto. Light creation Jan Maertens Production vzw Filter for wp Zimmer Co-production Stuk, Vooruit, Arcadi With the support from the Vlaamse Overheid Created at Stuk in October (Leuven)
Extra information
Affected was presented in
Austria: Vienna (ImPulsTanz)
Belgium: Antwerp (Amperdans), Berchem (CCBe), Ghent (Vooruit), Kortrijk (Stadsschouwburg), Leuven (STUK), Maasmechelen (CC)
The Netherlands: Amsterdam (Brakke Grond), Rotterdam (Schouwburg)
Poland: Poznan (Stary Browar Art Centre)
Spain: Barcelona (La Porta)
For upcoming performances, check out the calendar.
Press
Etcetera - jaargang 24, nummer 104, december 2006 / De Morgen - 10/10/2006 / Guy Cools
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