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A Blurry Thing (upcoming)
Photo Credit: camilla strandhagen
by Camilla Strandhagen
What does a body become when it can no longer trust its own perception? A Blurry Thing is a stagework for two performers and a sound artist.
It emerges from the experience of living with (chronic) illness, the perceptual phenomena dissociation, and the estrangement of becoming unfamiliar to oneself.
Something nameless grows in the room, grows out of proportion and becomes hyper local and non local at the same time. Softly unhinged bodies slip between clinical affirmations and perceptual betrayals. One body disperses into many. They borrow each other's voices. The wish to flee one's own flesh, while being hyper conscious, initiates the turmoil. Presence leaks into absence and the thing stares back. Blurring becomes a strategy of survival and a resource for enduring.
A Blurry Thing begins from the premise that a sick body demands new fictions. The choreographic language turns toward ambiguity, toward the threshold where definitions lose grip and choreographic imaginaries can emerge from the body's own undoing.
Team
concept and choreography: camilla strandhagen
performers: katrina gušča, camilla strandhagen
sound: marija rasa kudabaitė
costume and scenography: beate poikāne
scenographic instrument: arthur chambry, beate poikāne
lights: tbc
research assistant: eris previtali
rehearsal and technical assistant: juan felipe amaya gonzalez
dramaturgical advice: nienke scholts
mentorship: carolina mendonça
neuroqueer research group: emi cantieri, eris previtali, tulls primultini, camilla strandhagen
Residency support
DansiT, workspacebrussels, Bodies in Space
Supported by
The Flemish Arts Council
Arts Council Norway