Everything in life exists thanks to energy waves. These vibrations create the rhythms that drives us and makes our hearts beat. We share the same pace, the same pulse, we are connected through movement and touch. But what happens when the “beat” disappears?
Here is Jenna and here is Jonas. Living in the accelerated world of social media and the possibility of instant communication through messaging and swiping from left to right. These communcational forms make us feel deeply related to others, meanwhile we are missing the actual encounters, handshakes, hugs and movements expressing our instinctive feelings and physical reactions.
A contemporary dancer and a b-boy. Both physically trained to master techniques and control over their bodies. Together they are decoding the skilled and disciplined body into a new way of movement and partnering. The active and the passive. The manipulator and the manipulated one. “The living-body” and “the dead-body”. The sound artist Adrian Newgent joins them on stage, composing live soundscape in dialog with the dancers. The result is an incredibly physical, raw, yet intimate and touching duet about human relations.
Here is Jenna and here is Jonas. Living in the accelerated world of social media and the possibility of instant communication through messaging and swiping from left to right. These communcational forms make us feel deeply related to others, meanwhile we are missing the actual encounters, handshakes, hugs and movements expressing our instinctive feelings and physical reactions.
A contemporary dancer and a b-boy. Both physically trained to master techniques and control over their bodies. Together they are decoding the skilled and disciplined body into a new way of movement and partnering. The active and the passive. The manipulator and the manipulated one. “The living-body” and “the dead-body”. The sound artist Adrian Newgent joins them on stage, composing live soundscape in dialog with the dancers. The result is an incredibly physical, raw, yet intimate and touching duet about human relations.
CREDITSCreators, performers: Jenna Jalonen (FI), Jonas Garrido Verwerft (BE)
Concept, direction: Jenna Jalonen Live music composition: Adrian Newgent (NL) Production: Straatrijk Co-production: Collective Dope, Workshop Foundation Production assistant: Janka Vámos Special thanks to: Flying Bodies Supporters: STUK House for Dance, Image & Sound, Life Long Burning, Ultima Vez, Stad Leuven, SÍN Cultural Centre, Eva Duda Dance Company / Movein Studio, Cirk la Putyika / Jatka78, Emberi Erõforrások Minisztériuma The performance is supported by European Union Culture Program/The Creator is part of Viktor Fülöp Scholarship |
DATES11/07/2019: International Dance Week Budapest (Try-out)
04/10/2019: TRAFO Budapest (Première) - Tickets 21/11/2019: STUK Leuven - Tickets 
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