Five Poems in Two Parts for Three Dancers

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FIVE POEMS IN TWO PARTS FOR THREE DANCERS

‘Five poems in Two parts for Three dancers' is a project about community that is emerging only in shared space and time, during the performance.
Through the use of haiku poetry of Paul Éluard, as tools for dance vocabulary my intention was to investigate the creation of specific movement that has an atmospheric impact on viewers. How to generate a movement through the written word that then interprets the main issues within the performance, such as gaze, touch, or the space between viewer and performer?
Musicians used poetry to create different stops of sounds, and were reacting towards movements of dancers.

Where water and air meet, surface tension is created, a strange stickiness of the membrane that seems as invisible as it is impenetrable. Five poems in two parts for three dancers creates such enhanced attraction of atmospheric particles of body spaces with choreographic tactics. It is as if you are accidentally caught in an elastic membrane of gaze and movement, while actually coming to look at something else, something that is easy to define. But what you came to look at, looked at you, and clung to you in such a way that you had to reciprocate, and in that reciprocation and passing, a new gravitational force was created. Five - two - three is strange work, creepy and harmless at the same time, like nightmares clowns, like the illusion of an innocent childhood. However, the emphasis is on the “like” of these images, not their content. The work manages to produce its own atmosphere, its own “as if…” or “as…” leaving you the associative freedom to complete these sentences.

Una Bauer

Choreography: Mia Štark

Sound: Branimir Štivić, Lucian Mirdita
Dancers: Viktoria Bubalo, Tessa Ljubić, Mia Štark
Kazamat Gallery, Osijek, 2019.

Photography: Kristina Marić, Kristijan Cimer