Maria Metsalu
The Well
Dates
fri 18 feb 2022 - 20:00
location
Muziekstudio
duration
1h Is part of
The Estonian choreographer Maria Metsalu exposes humans’ automatic behaviour.
The Estonian choreographer Maria Metsalu confronts the audience with her passivity as an observer on the one hand, and her complicity as a witness on the other. Following her performance Mademoiselle X, Metsalu goes one step further in exposing and deconstructing the automatic behaviour of individual humans. The audience’s gaze is again presented as a gaze that has become ‘clinical’. The preconceived notions about the meaning of reality vanish into the abyss. The protagonist has no family, no friends, no connections. The world has become overwhelming in all its complexity, so the protagonist is accompanied by four psychoanalysts - AJ, Brian, Kevin and Nick. As she lies on the leather couch, she tries to write and give the world a structure once again. Throughout the narrative story of this tragic protagonist, the non-narrative performance deals with an individual apocalypse. The performance space becomes an erotic thought landscape, an internal and secret place for the aberrant body, which hears that which may not be heard, which sees things that are not there.
Maria Metsalu (1990) is an Estonian choreographer and artist, who graduated in 2016 from SNDO (School voor Nieuwe Dansontwikkeling) in Amsterdam. She creates visual performative works which, regardless of the chosen medium, place her own body at the epicentre. She is interested in the way in which the position of the viewer can be challenged, destabilised or abolished altogether. She sees performance as a radical space, which is capable of creating new meanings, new ways of looking and seeing.
Maria Metsalu (1990) is an Estonian choreographer and artist, who graduated in 2016 from SNDO (School voor Nieuwe Dansontwikkeling) in Amsterdam. She creates visual performative works which, regardless of the chosen medium, place her own body at the epicentre. She is interested in the way in which the position of the viewer can be challenged, destabilised or abolished altogether. She sees performance as a radical space, which is capable of creating new meanings, new ways of looking and seeing.
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