LAST CRESCENT
"Last Crescent" is a one hour scored improvisation of two dancers embodying a sensuous relationship to themselves and to their surroundings, in a desolate playground. It is also their last dance on earth. It is a choreography of regeneration, of interdependance, of pleasure- making in a global context of scarcity, and in connection to each other..
Their bodies are informed by an extensive rehearsal process of reasearching attunement, pleasurable sensorial experiences, trust-building through mutual witnessing, balance between self and collective awareness, in a pressure-free mindset.
Danced by Tara Pula and Marco-Lee Safi
Choreography, set design and costumes: Gala faraus
Light design in collaboration with Katinka Marac
Outside eye: Raoni Muzho Saleh
Sound credit: Transcendental Meditation #6 by Raphael Reuter
Captured by Pablo Alanes and Nellie de Boers
"Last Crescent" is a resistance to the array of precarities affecting us artists in restrictive times. It is an ephemeral utopia based on self-and collective preservation through pleasure and attentive listening, in a felt context ofurgency. It is and represents a break from the overall systemic pressure to compete, produce, dominate, conform and believe in individual autonomy or self-sufficiency. It offers a temporary emancipation from stress, fears and obligations. While featuring a minimized pressure, this piece is a maximization of the luxury that a creationprocess represents in the early 2020s: space and time for togetherness, for relaxing and having fun together, for communality, in an atmosphere of warmth and trust.
Those conditions come as a boon and antidote to the scarcity which most of us partially or continuously experience: isolation, lack of space and therefore movement, poor access to
physical and mental health, poor access to fun, laughter and relaxation, to financial and social safety, to name a few. "Last Crescent" aims at creating a crack in this scarcity and at using the stage to experience an alternative living.
Another point of entry to this project is to create a space for aimless or outcome-free experimentation, with voice, costume, sound- and movement-making. Ultimately, "Last Crescent" is a process and a piece converging towardsinhabiting oneself, accompanied and witnessed by other beings in the space, all relating to one another in sustainable ways: negotiated, unstressed, interested and supportive. We thus create a pleasure ecosystem of dancers who thrive, in circumstances of decay.
This ecosystem is informed with the notion of “the last day on earth” and operates according to specific principles: pleasure, singularity-affirming, interdependence, avoiding sense-making, rejecting pressure, attentive and intuitive listening, negotiation of needs and wants, autonomy, voluntary basis, non-representation and not being “good at”. We move together in the direction of creating a common language, not based on words but on movements, subtle body intonations, soft invitations, yet precise signals. This provides the structure within which (in)actions unfold freely and the frame for this scored improvisation.
Each performer is given the possibility to shine and to hide, to solo and to gather, to be a virtuoso and to beinsecure, to expose oneself in plain spotlight or linger in darkness. The only requisite is to follow the principles mentioned above, whose incompressible version would be: respect, awareness, responsibility and most of all, pleasure.
The notion of last day on earth is given to get rid of the unnecessary mind clutters, to come
back to essential matters, according to the motto “dead soon”. i believe it gives the body and the mind a specific state which i desire to see on stage: less attention to the form, more to the substance. Less pleasing and more harmonious listening. The cancellation of the "future" also provides more space for the present, therefore for embodiment, or incarnation. And of course, for the beautiful intensity of a last dance on earth.
This ecosystem is as delicate as precious, and requires a long inhabiting of the collective
space.
Attunement and pleasure go hand in hand in this project: they are its back spine, along which remaining creatures spend their last hour of life, their last dance before the end.
Their bodies are informed by an extensive rehearsal process of reasearching attunement, pleasurable sensorial experiences, trust-building through mutual witnessing, balance between self and collective awareness, in a pressure-free mindset.
Danced by Tara Pula and Marco-Lee Safi
Choreography, set design and costumes: Gala faraus
Light design in collaboration with Katinka Marac
Outside eye: Raoni Muzho Saleh
Sound credit: Transcendental Meditation #6 by Raphael Reuter
Captured by Pablo Alanes and Nellie de Boers
"Last Crescent" is a resistance to the array of precarities affecting us artists in restrictive times. It is an ephemeral utopia based on self-and collective preservation through pleasure and attentive listening, in a felt context ofurgency. It is and represents a break from the overall systemic pressure to compete, produce, dominate, conform and believe in individual autonomy or self-sufficiency. It offers a temporary emancipation from stress, fears and obligations. While featuring a minimized pressure, this piece is a maximization of the luxury that a creationprocess represents in the early 2020s: space and time for togetherness, for relaxing and having fun together, for communality, in an atmosphere of warmth and trust.
Those conditions come as a boon and antidote to the scarcity which most of us partially or continuously experience: isolation, lack of space and therefore movement, poor access to
physical and mental health, poor access to fun, laughter and relaxation, to financial and social safety, to name a few. "Last Crescent" aims at creating a crack in this scarcity and at using the stage to experience an alternative living.
Another point of entry to this project is to create a space for aimless or outcome-free experimentation, with voice, costume, sound- and movement-making. Ultimately, "Last Crescent" is a process and a piece converging towardsinhabiting oneself, accompanied and witnessed by other beings in the space, all relating to one another in sustainable ways: negotiated, unstressed, interested and supportive. We thus create a pleasure ecosystem of dancers who thrive, in circumstances of decay.
This ecosystem is informed with the notion of “the last day on earth” and operates according to specific principles: pleasure, singularity-affirming, interdependence, avoiding sense-making, rejecting pressure, attentive and intuitive listening, negotiation of needs and wants, autonomy, voluntary basis, non-representation and not being “good at”. We move together in the direction of creating a common language, not based on words but on movements, subtle body intonations, soft invitations, yet precise signals. This provides the structure within which (in)actions unfold freely and the frame for this scored improvisation.
Each performer is given the possibility to shine and to hide, to solo and to gather, to be a virtuoso and to beinsecure, to expose oneself in plain spotlight or linger in darkness. The only requisite is to follow the principles mentioned above, whose incompressible version would be: respect, awareness, responsibility and most of all, pleasure.
The notion of last day on earth is given to get rid of the unnecessary mind clutters, to come
back to essential matters, according to the motto “dead soon”. i believe it gives the body and the mind a specific state which i desire to see on stage: less attention to the form, more to the substance. Less pleasing and more harmonious listening. The cancellation of the "future" also provides more space for the present, therefore for embodiment, or incarnation. And of course, for the beautiful intensity of a last dance on earth.
This ecosystem is as delicate as precious, and requires a long inhabiting of the collective
space.
Attunement and pleasure go hand in hand in this project: they are its back spine, along which remaining creatures spend their last hour of life, their last dance before the end.
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