2024
A collaborative production in three acts by
Heinz Peter Knes, DISTANT CASUALS and Ricardo Domeneck
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figures is a performative reflection on different typologies or characters and the energies they transact in society, be it outside or within its norms. These chosen figures exist, but are in equal measure figments of (our) imagination, pyschoanalytical tools, the stuff of mythology. They are: the golden boy, woman with weapon, the doppelganger, and the forgotten. They are enforcers of law, agents of chaos, victim and opressor. They‘re part of a cultural history whose monolithic, solid quality is being called into question. The piece starts from text, becomes film, becomes dance, and ends as spoken word (but it is not a final word):
The figures are introduced in Heinz Peter Knes‘ filmic collage. An off-screen female voice delivers textual tabelaux which young actors embody.
The tableaux are transported into the present moment in a live choreography conceived and performed by the dance company DISTANT CASUALS. In it, the figures are enacted in transformation – morphing into one another, transitioning from vague to concrete, reflecting their ambiguity and complexity before vanishing.
Text turned into images turned into movement which turns back into words – Ricardo Domeneck‘s poetic epilogue, spoken by Adam Lusena Ash, spotlights the mythology of the „Golden Boy“, the expectations, the promise, the destruction, and failure. The violence that lives in this narrative. The hidden figures, such as mothers and daughters. How toxic can a promise of glory be?
The figures are introduced in Heinz Peter Knes‘ filmic collage. An off-screen female voice delivers textual tabelaux which young actors embody.
The tableaux are transported into the present moment in a live choreography conceived and performed by the dance company DISTANT CASUALS. In it, the figures are enacted in transformation – morphing into one another, transitioning from vague to concrete, reflecting their ambiguity and complexity before vanishing.
Text turned into images turned into movement which turns back into words – Ricardo Domeneck‘s poetic epilogue, spoken by Adam Lusena Ash, spotlights the mythology of the „Golden Boy“, the expectations, the promise, the destruction, and failure. The violence that lives in this narrative. The hidden figures, such as mothers and daughters. How toxic can a promise of glory be?
photos by Nick Ash