DANCE COMPANY
ZEITGENÖSSISCHER ABEND
A choreographic journey where the body becomes both witness and instrument, navigating the fragile space between connection and disconnection, intimacy and isolation.
Bringing together Smash Me Softly by Iacopo Loliva, Are You Coming to My Pyjama Party? by Laura Guy, Text When You Land by Peter Chu, and Kompót by Kinga Varga, the program traces shifting states of being, from fractured interactions and collective vulnerability to the transient nature of movement and the raw threshold between life and absence.
Together, these works create a landscape where presence is constantly renegotiated, and where dance becomes both a visceral encounter and a space for reflection on the rhythms of human existence.
PROGRAMM:
9th of December at 20:00 :
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Birds Don’t Sing They Screech In Pain TEXT WHEN YOUR LAND
iRiS
. Intermission .
No Clue
TEXT WHEN YOUR LAND
9th of December at 20:00 :
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Birds Don’t Sing They Screech In Pain TEXT WHEN YOUR LAND
iRiS
. Intermission .
No Clue
TEXT WHEN YOUR LAND
Smash me softly
Choreographer : Iacopo Loliva
Length: 25 min
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“Smash me softly” is a study on disconnection, a quiet violence where bodies collide, reach, and retreat. As movements misalign and attempts at connection dissolve, the choreography captures the constant slipping between contemporary human interactions.
In a world where virtuality creates the illusion of global connection, the piece reveals the somatic disconnection and the real isolation of bodies interacting only through mediated channels, making us drift between presence and absence.
Are you coming to my pyjama party?
Choreographer : Laura Guy
Length: 25 min
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Are You Coming to My Pyjama Party? is a choreographic exploration of collective vulnerability, emotional excess, and the cultural codes of intimacy among female-identifying bodies. Blending strength with softness, chaos with stillness, and physical rigor with moments of deep reflection, the piece invites the audience into a world that feels at once domestic and sacred. Rooted in sensations of hygge (warmth, coziness) and gourmandise (pleasure, indulgence), it celebrates fleeting moments of closeness. The tenderness of sleepovers, the messiness of womanhood, the beauty of unfiltered emotion. Through a tapestry of unison and individuality, the choreography reimagines femininity in all its contrasts: gentle yet wild, still yet intense, collective yet deeply personal. Visually inspired by Baroque and Neoclassical portraiture - from Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith and Her Maidservant and Elisabetta Sirani’s Portia Wounding Her Thigh to works by Ingres and Godward - the performers embody these images as living tableaux: moments of breath-held stillness set against extremes of physicality. In close proximity to the audience, without direct interaction, the performers create an intimate, atmospheric
world where connection, vulnerability, and the chaos of togetherness can unfold.
Text when you land
​Choreographer : Peter Chu
​Length : 30 min​​
In a transient life, the only constant is the recurring event of arriving and departing. Although these movements seem linear in structure, I’m interested in what lives in the maligned moments during these actions. The traces we carry from place to place inspire the opposition we use in the creative process. The circularity of vitality, energy, and substance and how they co-exist within the movement was vital in developing the source material for this work. These three treasures assisted us with how moving bodies from mixed cultures communicate through breath, sensation, and touch. Text when you land examines the emotional traces we carry from place to place. It is a reminder to breathe and release the unnecessary layers accumulated in the body and mind. Is there a point at which moving bodies find stillness, or perhaps they never arrive? I find wonderment in the desire to surrender to this mystery!
Kompót
Choreographer: Kinga Varga
Lenght 45 min
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Kompót explores the deep journey of human life, desires, natural instincts, and pure physicality. Known for its powerful and emotional impact, the performance highlights the fragile line between life and death, showing how, in one moment, we are alive, full of dreams and thoughts, and in the next, we can be just a body without life, colourless, weightless, and empty. Ultimately, it questions the notions of meaning and indifference: Can we prepare ourselves for this journey? Who knows what matters, or who decides what is important? Is death a dark tragedy, or just a part of our everyday life…
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