ʒиN 11: DADA-DANCE
Can movement be/become a fetish? Is the focus of conceptualization in the eyes of the beholder or in the body of the performer? and how much manipulation is there on both sides? Can dance/movement be considered a field for identifying a fetish without any aesthetic or psychological connections? Is it possible to capture in a continuous flow of movement (even with minimal change or pauses) the creation of a fetish object through the body, physicality and technique/aesthetics/concept? Is it possible to catch a fetish in a video dance or in a spectator’s witnessing of a dance? Or is it possible only in photographic evidence? Is a fetish a symbol of time, aesthetics, culture? Or an object? Or an addiction/attachment/attraction to the form? Is a fetish a kind of favorite habit that is obvious only to me and the professional circle? Fetish — can only be eroticized? Or filled with other meanings — political, aesthetic, whatever. How much of the fetish is me and how much is the socio-cultural background? Is it a (painful/obsessive/constant) attachment to a certain form and filling on an ongoing basis or is it the influence of the moment? Is fetish a misused concept for dance? I’m interested how the same movement is filled with different meanings, overgrown with interpretations and symbolism, how opposition/consonance manifests itself with the testimony of this movement by others (viewer, camera, environment) and it is especially valuable to find in all this something absolutely empty (devoid of interpretations) or alien. I am interested in the laboratory method and the body/corporality as the main field (and tool) for understanding reality, its analysis and subsequent transformation in the works where I participate — distributing my attention to both the movement/anatomical side of practice and the conceptual/compositional side. Realizing myself as a woman and living the social and anatomical experience of the female body in Russia, I translate this bodily information into my own performing practice. // Tata Obelchak
Tata Obelchak
choreographer, dance artist
I am returning to the times when I was an 11yo boy
Иногда я выхожу в ночи
из моего нового дома в Б
и нечаянно убиваю местных слизняков
слепой поверхностью своих ботинков.
Sometimes I step outside
my new home in B
whens its dark
and I kill some slugs
unintentionally
with the blind surface of my shoes.
Nastasia Surikova
Dancer, teacher, choreographer
“dinosaur pony”
Динозавр изогнулся своей спиной за горизонт.
(The dinosaur arched its back toward the horizon)
Короткие передние лапы делали его безобидным. Но все почему-то всё равно его боялись.
(Its short front legs made it look harmless. But for some reason everyone was still afraid of him)
(The sound of the habitat 1)
Когда ощущение зелёного динозавра впервые пришло ко мне, я была растеряна ещё больше.
(When the feeling of the green dinosaur first came to me, I was even more confused)
Choreographic zine
DADA-DANCE is a relay dance unfolding in time and on a plane, it is a dance performed and / or depicted, it is a movement from left to right, but forward, which unites people, their bodies, their imagination in one single dance from the first to the last page.
The algorithm of actions
The previous participant, who invited you to continue his/her dance, gives you the final movement of his/her dance (this does not happen directly, but through the mediation of the editorial board of Zina), for you this movement becomes the first movement of your dance, which you perform in any form you like and document with any available means.
Documentation of a dance here means any possible representation of the dance:
— A dance filmed on video
— A dance whose phases are presented as a series of photos
— GIF dance
— A dance edited from someone else’s video
— Painted dance
— Dance made with the help of collage
— Dance narration in audio format
— Text description of the dance
— Anything else and any combination of the above.
Ideally, the time to «perform» the dance from the moment the baton is accepted until the material is sent should not exceed 10 days.
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