“Words define what is there. What exists. The rest are speculations. Words are the base of misunderstandings.”
(Ludwig Wittgenstein)
“What I say is never what I say but instead something else”
(Clarice Lispector)
In BIBLIOMANIACS, six women create an exposed universe of words and movements where both worlds compete with each other in order to endure, to transcend. Beautiful poetry mixed with straightforward monologues and sexual phantasies bring us to the past and the very present in a tense and unsuccessful dialogue. The unique physicality of BIBLIOMANIACS belongs to what I define as the monkey mind language: the incessant chatter in our heads when we go from one thought to another, from one emotion to another, like a monkey jumping from tree to tree chaotically. This physical language emphasizes certain randomness, the disconnection between the brain and the body, always confronting the very personal way of executing our actions, decisions, movements…
Can we hide behind sensual poetic images? Do we need to? Do we want to? Can words have the power to perdure after the body takes over?
BIBLIOMANIACS it’s like a very busy day, full of information that we can not process and still we enjoy having that day, being there, having the challenge.
DIRECTION AND CHOREOGRAPHY: Lisi Estarás
DRAMATURGY: Carmen Mehnert
BY AND WITH: Candaş Bas, Eli Cohen, Emmanouela Dolianiti, Shannon Leypoldt, Daisy Phillips, Asuka Julia Riedl
MUSIC BY: Gabriel Chwojnik
SOUND: Ivan Bartsch
COSTUMES: Madeleine Sahl
LIGHTING DESIGN: Catalina Fernandez
DIRECTING INTERN: Binks Mooney, Laura Schultis
PRODUCTION: Chloé Ferro
PRODUCTION OFFICE: Valeria Ryzhonina, María José Jaña
A production by CONSTANZA MACRAS | DORKYPARK in collaboration with KINDL – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst.
Funded by Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa.
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https://www.tanzforumberlin.de/produktion/bibliomaniacs/ [2021-03-05] | www.dorkypark.org [2021-03-05]