saturday 28 march – 10 pm
Spazio Hera
Cristina Kristal Rizzo/Charlie Laban Trier (I/DK/NL)
Hypernating
performance
Sound could be the subtlest element of the perceptible material. In Hypernating CKR and CLT explore the possibilities and edges of a seemingly narrating voice. A dis-positioned voice – becoming multiple voices – channeled through a trans-body. The voices narrate text, which is working itself out of clarity and declaration – delivering suggestive and teasing messages that could be stories. They evoke imagery and shape spaces halfway between the physical and the visionary, able to be inhabited by differentiated imagination and unsolidified dreams. Blind voices like the one of Oracle Tiresias. They break into singing, but with a quality of a lip synch, as if the voices are completely detached from their organic material. CLT and CKR ask if the voices can propose a dark promise with an absence of subjectivity and instead a potential presence of another body, an artificial image that appears and disappears in front of our imagined sight. They question the realness of voice and ask us to take a walk through the uncanny valley. They search for ways to create and then rupture images never interested in fulfilling into recognition and for that, they have called upon darkness – working in a dark space. The images are physically modeled as luminous gleams that immediately are reabsorbed into a dark viscous matter. The scene is inhabited by objects and devices which have lost their function – to become something else like traces of an over-illuminated time, that still lingers in an obsession with clarity-over-sensation and biological realness. Hypernating shares a bodily tale from an interior monologue towards a potential collective discourse. Perhaps it’s a Love song – a weave of an artificial collision modulating an ever-diffusing uncanny painting.
Cristina Kristal Rizzo, dancemaker living in Florence, is active on the Italian contemporary dance scene since the early 90s. Founder of the art collective Kinkaleri, with whom she worked intensely until 2007 receiving numerous international awards, since 2008 she has embarked into a personal journey of production and experimental choreography, addressing her creations towards theory and research studies with a strong dynamic impact, establishing herself as one of the main personalities of Italian choreography. Among her recent productions: TOCCARE – The white dance, ULTRAS sleeping dances, VN Serenade, Prélude, ikea, BoleroEffect. Apart from her shows and performances, she carries out an intense activity of experimental proposals, conferences, workshops, advanced training and theoretical writing. As guest choreographer she has created for the main Italian opera houses and theatre institutions, such as Teatro Comunale di Firenze/Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Balletto di Toscana Junior, Aterballetto.
Charlie Laban Trier, danish dancemaker and performer based primarily in Amsterdam, graduated from SNDO – Bachelor in Choreography. One of the focuses of his work, is studying how to embody and learn from methods of already existing performance practices that play with turning the gaze inside-out, and aims on enhancing space for bodies corrupted by different oppressive structures. Being in different queer scenes and living as a transgender-person, has also influenced his thinking and approach to work. In recent years he has worked for artists such as Paul Maheke, Beck Heiberg, Michele Rizzo, Noha Ramadan, Keren Levi, Phoebe Osborne, Andreas Hannes. Since 2015 he has worked for and together with Cristina Kristal Rizzo.
concept, choreography and performance Cristina Kristal Rizzo, Charlie Laban Trier
supported by Centrale Fies / Live Works Vol.7