Duo | 20min | 2014
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"An insect-like duet, constructed over, behind and around each other. […] Improvisations by sound magician Gero Pitlok reinforce the sensual impression of their performance, which rises from the floor across all fours to an upright walk."
Vesna Mlakar, AZ, November 2019
Out of the pathological desire to fuse oneself with the other emerges a bug. Unable of touching nor being touched. Beings that devour each other in order to hold onto one another. In the digestion process, one assumes traits of the other and they become one. United in their narcicism, inevitably alone. A skin under another skin, that makes them impermeable, impenetrable, immovable an autoreferencial. Skin-blind. They mask the lack of sensations under codified images. They dance on a battlefield, waiting for the invisible enemy.
Trailer of Mantis
Idea | Concept | Choreography | Interpretation
Cecilia Loffredo & Rosalie Wanka
Acting
Irina Wanka (german) - Alenjandro Dorto, Ricardo Baigorria (spanish)
Music
Federico Mansilla
Texts
S. Freud - J. Lacan - F. G. Lorca
Photography
Tom Gonsior