Sreda, 26. avgust, ob 21.30, telovadnica Osnovne šole I, Murska Sobota

Alexander Deutinger & Marta Navaridas / Unicorn

“Look At Them Now!”

Avstrija / Španija

Koncept in nastop: UNICORN (Alexander Deutinger & Marta Navaridas)

Mentor, trener (coach): Irene Schaltegger

Luč: N. N

Zvok: Johannes Lernpeiss

Glasba: Lee Hazelwood, Vincent Gallo, Johannes Brahms, Pascal Gaigne, CAN

Zahvala: AHK Theatre School of Amsterdam, Choreographic Centre Linz (CCL), D.ID dance-identity, uni-T Graz, Kulturamt der Stadt Graz, Kultur Land Steiermark, Eusko Jaularitza / Departamento de Cultura del País Vasco

Skupina Unicorn se v Look at them now! skozi koreografske procese sooča in pogaja s splošno sprejetimi vzorci človeškega vedenja. Zanimanje skupine se predvsem usmerja k preizpraševanju sočasnega tolmačenja besedil in giba, kjer se osredotočajo na raziskovanje manipulativnih form gibanja v razmerju do besedila in obratno. V predstavi Look at them now! poskušajo vplivati na percepcijo gibanja z izgovorjenimi besedami, katerih zvočni izvor ni povsem znan; njihov govorec je prikrit in glas prihaja nekje iz ozadja ter izvira iz nekega nevidnega / nedosegljivega prostora.

Look at them now! ima močan pečat relacije dveh, medsebojno nasprotno diametralnih plati absurda – pola opazovanja in pola biti opazovan. Ustvarjalce je navdihnil kratki eksperimentalni film The Perfect Human Jorgena Letha, uprizoritev pa predvsem koncipira vzporednice, ki nastajajo v poteku "vsakdanjih obredov", kot sta na primer odhajanje v živalski vrt ali odpravljanje na gledališko predstavo. Igralce, tako imenovane "človeške odrske živali", medtem ko opravljajo odrska dejanja, sočasno spremlja »komentatorski glas eksperta«, deklariranega kot zakriti glas indikatorja strokovne (ne)oporečnosti. Neposreden spoj besedila in fizičnih akcij se oblikuje kot konceptualna provokacija, ki preizkuša gledalčevo labilnost pri oblikovanju njegovih osebnih stališč in hipnega spreminjanja odzivov na dani dogodek.

Po končanem nastopu bo na prizorišču potekal pogovor o predstavi, ki ga bo moderirala Jedrt J. Furlan.

Wednesday, 26th August at 21:30, Gym of the Primary School I, Murska Sobota

Alexander Deutinger & Marta Navaridas / Unicorn

“Look At Them Now!”

  Austria / Spain

Concept and performance: UNICORN (Alexander Deutinger & Marta Navaridas)

Mentor, coach: Irene Schaltegger

Light: N.N

Sound: Johannes Lernpeiss

Music: Lee Hazelwood, Vincent Gallo, Johannes Brahms, Pascal Gaigne, CAN

Thanks to: AHK Theatre School of Amsterdam, Choreographic Centre Linz (CCL), D.ID dance-identity, uni-T Graz, Kulturamt der Stadt Graz, Kultur Land Steiermark, Eusko Jaularitza / Departamento de Cultura del País Vasco

In the Look at them now!, the Unicorn group faces and negotiates the generally accepted patterns of human behaviour through choreographic procedures. The prime interest of the group is directed towards the re-questioning of the simultaneous interpretation of texts and movements, where they focus on exploring the manipulation forms of movement in relation to the text and vice versa. In the Look at them now! performance, they attempt to influence the perception of movement through the spoken words, whose sound origin is not fully identified; their speaker is concealed and the voice is coming from somewhere in the background and originates in an invisible/inaccessible place. 

Look at them now! carries a strong seal of relation between two diametrically opposite sides of the absurd – the pole of being an observer and the pole of being observed. The creators were inspired by a short experimental film The Perfect Human by Jorgen Leth and the performance in the first place delineates the parallels emerging in the course of "daily rituals" such as for example going to the Zoo or heading for a theatre performance. The players, the so-called "human stage-animals", are accompanied, during the performance of their stage acts, by the “commenting voice of an expert”, declared as the concealed voice of the indicator of professional (ir)reproachability. The direct merging of the text and physical actions is designed as a conceptual provocation testing the spectator's instability in formulating his/her personal positions and instant changing of reactions to a given event. 

After the performance there will be a discussion hosted by Jedrt J. Furlan.