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"ReVerbs" by Özlem Alkiş & Vlaicu Golcea

- a performative installation -

Choreography and performance: Özlem Alkiş

Performance, photo and music: Vlaicu Golcea

Video: Andrei Gâțu

Animation: Mihai Păcurar

recorded at National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania, 2013

Production: Gabriela Tudor Foundation in the frame of E-Motional Bodies & Cities (www.e-motional.eu)

Funders: Culture 2007-2013 programme of the EU, National Dance Centre Bucharest
“The ReVerbs performance is based on rhythmical durations of the expansion and repetition of a gesture, which, through progressive resumption is intensified and grows sharply. In the absence of the music, the body creates its own supple and resonant reality. A reality that fits closely on each simultaneity of gestures, keeping the time of its evolution. A resonant thought is just a viewpoint on a relation that opens and closes itself successively, in order to re-engage its interior sense of time of getting closer or, on the opposite, farer away. A head bends in order to find its balance in the pair head. Then the head raises and fixes itself in its own body, as if it would not have had a support head next to it. The heads follow their individual track and become again what they used to be at the beginning: all-alone heads. The sounds are layering and find the space of alternation in their proximity to the wall, floor and concrete. The performance unites and separates two bodies that temporize, each in its own rhythm a common space of connection. The intimate space grows and gets out of the room. It enters public space, social spaces of intervention where the reality has a different tempo. The devices of the presence (sound, part of the body, public space) are resonating as if they were separate parts of a story with different rhythmical roots. When one does not hear the bodies anymore, the space between them is being heard.” – Mihaela Michailov