Eclipses
performance / 45 min / 2023
co-created with ReveRso and Isabelle Chladek aka Yotta Baka
co-produced with the Centre d’Art Contemporain de Genève, Flux Laboratory Genève
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Eclipses is the first performance created by the trio Glitters of Darkness (ReveRso, Nagi Gianni, Yotta Baka). The piece takes on contemporary grotesque elements to rise against the failures of a society obsessed with perfect appearance and transparency. The work explores the theme of the body through the lenses of aging, mortality, gender, and resilience. In a movement oscillating between pain and pleasure, the bodies, both imprisoned and fortified, undergo a series of rituals that stretch them far beyond traditional limits, reaching the extreme, exhaustion. Isolated yet united, they silently express their unquenchable desire to exist.
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creation, masks, prosthetic bodies, costumes, set design: Nagi Gianni / Creation, performance, and choreography: ReveRso / Creation, performance: Yotta Baka (Isabelle Chladek) / Sound universe: Mad Kate / Lighting: Thibault Villard / Wigs: Katrine Zingg
production: Cie Folledeparole, Cie Hyena / Executive production: Ars Longa / Co-production: Centre d’Art Contemporain de Genève / Supported by: City of Geneva, Loterie Romande, Ernst Göhner Foundation, Flux Laboratory
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previous iterations:
13.05.2023 - Flux Laboratory Genève, Switzerland
7.09.2023 - Loftas Fest' Vilnius, Lithuania
13.04.2024 - Bally Foundation Lugano, Switzerland​
Still Crashing
performance-installation / 70 min / 2022
co-produced with Arsenic – Centre d’Art Scénique Contemporain Lausanne, Théâtre de l’Usine x ANTIGEL x Fonderie Kugler, Geneva
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After a vehicle crash in the desert, time stops, and a temporal rift opens, at a distance from our world. Between life and death, its crew of displaced and disoriented beings reincarnates as half-human, half-hyena creatures, close to a fantasized state of nature to be re-explored. Like a living painting in suspension, inspired by the filming of a fantasy movie about the end of the world, Still Crashing inhabits the ruins as fertile ground to re-cultivate and re-imagine possibilities. The wandering characters, like zombies, attempt to navigate this episode together. Trapped in an emptiness to be filled at the dawn of an afterlife, they share confessions, memories, and laughter to let go in the face of the absurdity of their condition.
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previous iterations:
9-12.06.2022 - Arsenic - centre d'art scénique contemporain Lausanne, Switzerland
16-18.02.2023 - Festival Antigel x Fonderie Kugler x Théâtre de l'Usine Genève, Switzerland​​
concept, direction, set design, masks & costumes: Nagi Gianni / Original texts: Jen Rosenblit / Choreography in collaboration with the performers: Tatiana Baumgartner, Andrius Mulokas, Bastien Hippocrate / Choreographic guidance: Sonja Jokiniemi / Dramaturgical guidance: Mateusz Szymanowka / Theoretical guidance: Laura Spozio / Soundscape: Chaos Clay / Lighting: Jacqueline Sobiszewski
production: HYENA / co-production: Théâtre de l’Usine, Genève ; Arsenic – Centre d’art scénique contemporain, Lausanne; Festival Antigel, Genève / supported by: City of Geneva, Loterie Romande, Engelberts Foundation, Leenards Foundation, Fluxum Foundation, Fondation suisse des artistes interprètes SIS
Body Rising
2024 / sculpture-installation / acrylic resin, fiberglass, pigments, woods / 110 x 200 x 160 cm
open studio Atelier Genève, Wiesenstrasse 29 - Berlin
