There is so much magic in simple things, especially when simplicity is born from long and demanding labor. Such is the work of Kazuyo Shionoiri and Dror Liberman Keep it up: simple and profound, shifting from moment to moment and from performance to performance, and above all, touching and lingering.Read more
…in this work, the seemingly simple initial circumstance — five performers standing onstage, blowing at feathers, insisting they stay aloft against gravity, is a ground for a chain of evolving states and images: decomposing, coalescing, sometimes funny, sometimes heart-piercing, always direct, clear, unpretentious, yet steeped in both physical and mental effort.Read more
Why do we always want the performance to go to the edge? Why do we ask a woman who has just informed us she is pregnant to jump off a plastic chair in order to reach the ceiling? Why is “explode” the first thing we ask of the clearly angry performer? Why does control always lead to some kind of humiliation or abuse?Read more