Confessions

What is the presence of a performer?
Does construction feed falsification?
How does the manipulation of presence instruct the perception of a performance?
In Confessions - The autopsy of a performance presence takes the leading role, guides the piece and brings the awareness on the absurdity of theatre, on the construction of a lie that is built to be believed in.

(Physical) Images and text lead the spectators into a world where lies are sometimes true and facts unimportant.
An excess of manipulation and speculation giving birth to a sincere and curious approach to what live performance is today, and questioning its value as such.
Confessions is essentially a meeting between the performer, the audience and the stage that keeps them apart.

Looking at acting as a form of non-acting in order to arrive at a distance from the artificiality of performance, only to return to it again from a different perspective.
Looking for harmony between dead energy and live presence, stretching the tension between formalism and naturalism, environment and action.
Questioning the appearance of ‘reality’ on stage and finding ways of unravelling stagnated forms of representation in order to initiate a need and curiosity for changes in theatrical presentation.

Credits

Creation and performance Nada Gambier Light-design Oded Hubermann Production Choreographisches Zentrum NRW/PACT Zollverein in Essen, in the framework of DEPARTS, a network sponsored by the European Commission ‘Culture Programme 2000’ Supported by wp Zimmer, Antwerpen (B) Distribution Action Scénique vzw

Extra information

Confessions - The autopsy of a performance was presented in
Austria: Vienna (ImageTanz Festival)
Belgium: Antwerp (Amperdans), Berchem (CCBe), Brugge (December Dance), Brussels (Beursschouwburg), Genk (CC), Hasselt (CC), Kortrijk (BUDA/Stadsschouwburg), Tongeren (De Velinx), Turnhout (De Warande)
Estonia: Talinn (Augusti Tantsu Festival)
Finland: Pyhäsalmi (Full Moon Dance Festival)
France: Paris (Rencontres Chorégraphiques)
Germany: Bremen (Theater für Alle Festival), Cologne (Dampf Festival), Essen (PACT-Zollverein), Frankfurt (Mousonturm), München (Tanzwerkstatt Europa Festival)
The Netherlands: Amsterdam (Brakke Grond / Something Raw)
Sweden: Goteborg (Atalanta), Stockholm Moderna Dans Teatern)
United Kingdom: London (Aerowaves)

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