LINKAGE International Choreographic Competition

UPROOTED

by Ravid Abarbanel

Rising, scratching myself off the floor, moving forward. Disassembling and reassembling buildings that have become temporary, with the aim of continuing to move and search for the ultimate structure that I define as home.

A ROOM INSIDE MIND

by Maria de los Angeles Pais

This piece investigates the spatial and perceptual limits. Reflecting on transmigration, embodied questions arise. In a place occupied by memories and reflection many attempts to change perspective are made. 

FLOATING

by Vittoria Franchina & Giovanni Leone

Our brain is loaded daily with 34 gigabytes of content, which is the equivalent to around 100,000 words. One of the main characteristics of the digital era we live in is the fact that our senses are constantly stimulated; the Internet gives us simple, free and unlimited access to any information, making us always ask for more. We spend large amounts of time searching and collecting data that eventually we won’t be able to handle. This problem is known as “information overload” and it occurs when our attention is continually hampered and interrupted as we have to deal with an excessive quantity of facts; this may lead us to the impossibility of separating what is valuable from what is worthless. The mind goes blank and disconnects from reality, it starts to flow freely as water through unknown times and places. It gets lost in a stream of words and images that manipulates our attention and inhibits our ability to think and feel.

Is it possible to bring our brain and life back under control?
Or are we destined to be overwhelmed by this situation?

EGO sK

by Luca Scaduto

The piece has been developed from the concept of struggling to reach your own goals against the will of those who built a system, that is not taking care of who you are, or what you want, if is not for their own benefit . 

PSYCHE LONE

by James Wilton

A piece about being trapped in a whirlwind of loneliness.

DELICIOUS OVERDOSE

by Cristian Cucco & Alice Beatrice Carrino

Delicious overdose is a dream , a visionary metaphor and oneiric inner journey. She undertakes a voyage -followed and accompanied by him- under the endless rain of candy wrappers . The sweetness seems to be very sweet until it gets over the limit, becomes toxic, overwhelms and takes her vital energy. As a victim of her own temptation , she is entering in a liquefied mental and physic stage due to a glycemic overdose. The only way to escape from this state is to go back to reality and reconnect her with him(her)self.

SCENT OF HER GARDENIAS

by Lucas Rodrigues Valente

The duet brings on stage a forbidden relationship. The piece is based on the story of the book “Of love and other demons”, from the Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and aims to bring the same mysterious, aggressive and magic feeling to the stage.

A PLEA FOR IMPERMANENCE EXCERPT

by Jason Martin

A Plea for Impermanence is a solo contemporary dance performance focusing on cycles of transformation, metamorphosis, renewal and reconstruction. A central axis of reflection articulates around the capacity of resilience and adaptation of the human condition. The result is a work where, like a visceral spasm, the performer shifts between self-sufficiency and interdependence, vulnerability and determination, provocation and resignation. The body then becomes the communicator of the intangible, the bearer of countless memories of personal and universal experiences, uniting us by a causal link.

COMME UN SYMBOLE

by Alexandre Fandard

„Omnipresent in the media, excessively essentialized and often tinged with a certain class contempt or latent racism, the figure of the “suburban” fascinates as much as it worries. Beyond the clichés, it is all the symbolic complexity of this term that Alexandre Fandard dissects in this solo, aptly titled Comme un symbol.“

SEAL OF CAIN

by Alexander Abdukarimov

T.R.I.P.O.F.O.B.I.A.

by Pablo Girolami

The means by which a trypophobic skeleton is formed is geometry, which, however, only thanks to the imaginative contribution of the human mind, becomes an active gateway for fear; reflecting man’s insecurities and paranoia. Bottomless, where all awareness falls steeply. Facing a fear is not an easy game. The risks are indeed real, but the outcome far worth it. It seems that playing the game rather implies accepting not to play at all. With T.R.I.P.O.F.O.B.I.A. we choose to accept the challenge, transforming ourselves into the parasites that creep into its galleries. Two bodies that channel themselves into the patterns to which this phobia refers, untangling their selves among the dark tunnels devoid of air and seasoned with elements „foreign“ to us. The clarity is lost and the eyes close..

WE FIND EACH OTHER IN THE PLENUM

by Zoi Efstathiou

In an empty space, surrendered to its simplicity, everything is reflected. We commit ourselves and through contact, we research relationships under the surface. The relationships within us, which give a meaning to encouragement, support, trust. A complete and at the same time unrelated relationship. Plenum is the opposite of emptiness. We are talking about the plenum in each of us. Those moments when each of us, in a relentless effort to gain our independence, does not survive without the other. The important Other is the one who influences through and emotion. She is the one who constructs our reality. She is the one who passes from the past to the present. It is the interaction and the transition from empty to the complete. Typically, it is about „sharing“ experiences in a world of loneliness, where we create together. A meeting in which we research relationships below the surface. The relationships within us. Relationships of uniqueness, characterised by difficulty to balance, where there foundations is their identity. More specifically, the project „We find each other in the plenum“, concerns a journey of two women who „go through“ three different situations. The transition from one condition to the next is particularly important as it determines the smooth outcome. In the first part, the dancers move in perfect harmony and synchronisation, however every small change is the connecting link for the continuation of the piece. The frequent but imperceptible change of directions, forms a different space and a different perspective each time. The transition from one part to another is in a way a necessity for the relationship of the two always maintaining the interaction and the importance of the existence of the other. 

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