performed by Fernando Belfiore
Fernando Belfiore brings us to his high-voltage world right on entering the space: loud pop music, rainbow coloured floor, random unreadable items scattered around and he, a flashy figure dancing like a corny pop singer in a videoclip. What is this world? Who is this peculiar character oddly dancing, talking and snarling? How long has he been doing that before we came? In his accumulative self introduction he claims to be here to speak to us deep into our hearts – but can he? Belfiore keeps loading on images and music – star wars swords and iron masks, pop, opera and tribal, it all seems to make sense for him in his world. But what should it mean to us, confused spectators?
AL13FB<3 won’t give many answers, but it could make you laugh and make you wonder – and maybe that’s enough.
Author: Stella Mastorosteriou
Douglas performed by Robbie Synge Caution! The situation in Pilsen’s perfectly rusty Papírna is unstable and brittle. A man stands on a rolled-up dance floor pillar, three fragile old chairs tilted beside it. Eventually he jumps down, causing a carefully thought-out domino effect with the props around him. He is Robbie Synge as Douglas - a constructor or exploring stage engineer who's incessantly reassorting a set of simple objects: tying ropes, plugging and unplugging cables, balancing on a twirling cylinder, assembling chairs and stage lights in the revelatory manner of a man-child. It's simple stage physics, but Synge can be Sisyphus or any lonely male preoccupied with reinventing things from scratch. Genuinely curious and innocently courageous, Synge evokes vividly the bare force of human creativity. Author: Jelena Mihelčić Striptease Concept, direction and video: Pere Faura
Music: Carlos Jobim and Annie Lennox, mix Ivo Bol
Light design: Paul Schimmel and Pere Faura AL13FB<3 Choreography: Fernando Belfiore
Dramaturgy: Katarina Bakatsaki and Bruno Listopad
Music: Steve Martin Snider
Light design: Tomas Vondracek
Scene: Nikola Knezevic
Artistic supervision: Suzy Blok Douglas Choreography: Robbie Synge
Music and interpretation: David Maxwell
Light design: Brian Gorman
Dramaturgical assistance: Peggy Olislaegers
Josef Bartos
Thank you for your thoughts. One got stuck in my mind – that passion makes us different from AI. Just yesterday I read…I am a dance critic. I am a member of an endangered species