Day 2: Finals | MA Performance Practices

SYNTHETIC.SYNTROPHIC.SYMBIOTIC. by zoe antypa | 17:30 | Theatre 1

SYNTHETIC.SYNTROPHIC.SYMBIOTIC.
is a world-building performance where diverse, heterogeneous, fragmented bodies, ideas and desires coexist. Initiating from the human body as a complex, living site, it critically reflects on the traditional western scientific gaze -and its objectifying, hierarchical strategies. It proposes alternative, symbiotic perspectives able to blur the boundaries between self and other, human and nonhuman.

While participating in contemporary debates on anthropocentric, individualistic paradigms, SYN.SYN.SYM. imagines new ways of creating, working and living with towards the re-invention of intimacy with the other. Inspired by the structure of microbial communities of biofilms, the performance space becomes a living lab for rethinking interspecies relationships across social, philosophical and biological dimensions.

How we see the world shapes the stories we tell. This performance aims to tell a story differently -attuned to a world in crisis and transformation.

Have you ever thought of your body as an ecosystem?

Performers / co-creators: Iris Bredehoft, Tess Doucet, Mar Esteban Martin, Misha Kazakov, zoe antypa
Soundscape: Clàudia Ferrando
Technical Assistance: Irina Baldini, Thaís dos Santos and the
tech team: Bram Allard, Ingor Schoppers, Arjan Soutendijk, Koen van Hensbergen, Rik Marsman
Supervisor: Anja Foerschner
External Mentor: Eva Giannakopoulou
Photo credits: Eleni Vasilonikolou
Special thanks to Diamanto, Kasia, Joana, Eleni and Thaís for inspiring this project

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EXPANDING POETRY : an embodied practice of metaphoring by Joana Cunha Pinto | 18:30 | Studio 4

How does poetry do what it does? Could the body achieve the same?

EXPANDING POETRY attempts to stretch beyond written/ spoken language as poetry’s main form of creation and delivery. Having identified qualities of poetry—such as inviting a multiplicity of meanings, effectively affecting the reader, transcending literality, being simultaneously timed and timeless, to name a few—, I strive to understand how these could be carried out through movement and embodiment.

This process has led me towards organising an experimental practice which I call metaphoring. In this performance-lecture, I invite you to accompany me in going through the remnants of this journey.

                                                                    A strive to reclaim
                                                                    agency, time, space
                                                                    of and for the self.
                                 A call to face
                                           the trouble
                                           and to stay with it,
                                                  carving in it a place of refuge.
A request to stop,
            be patient
            and recognise
                      these present beauties are not collateral.

Concept and performance: Joana Cunha Pinto
Technical Support: Irina Baldini Eleni Vasilonikolou
Techical Team: Arjan Soutendijk, Bram Allard, Ingor Schoppers, Koen Van Hensbergen, Rik Marsman
Supervision: Anja Foerschner
External Mentoring: Emma Cocker
Photo credits: Diamanto Hadjizacharia
A special Thank You to my lovely cohort—Diamanto, Eleni, Kasia, Thaís and zoe.

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This body’s made of fear by Kasia Zarzycka | 19:30 | Theatre 3

This practice-as-research, engulfed by the author’s love for postmodern horror and theater, explored the psychopolitics of fears through embodiment, re-enactment and pop-cultural analysis. Psychopolitics, according to philosopher Byung-Chul Han, refers to the subtle manipulation of individuals’ inner lives and desires by neoliberal power structures. It leads to internalization of control rather than being externally dominated. As one of the strongest and primal emotions operating through the body and the (conscious and subconscious) mind, fear affects movement, behavior and rhetorics. Operating from the standpoint of affect theory, claiming emotions as crucial elements of understanding the contemporary society, this performance responds to an urgency of exposing fear as a political tool of manipulation
of an individual and collective body.

“This body’s made of fear” invites you to cut the white lies and hear through the white noise of everyday fears to finally look under the bed and see whether the monsters are still hiding in the darkness…

Concept: Kasia Zarzycka
Performers: Kasia Zarzycka, …
Supervision: Anja Foerschner
External mentor: Julia Dudzińska
Photo credits: zoe antypa, Joana Cunha Pinto
Technical support: Thais dos Santos, Diamanto Hadjizacharia
With immense help from: zoe antypa, Joana Cunha Pinto, Thais dos Santos, Diamanto Hadjizacharia, Eleni Vasilonikolou, Irina Baldini, Kristi Leigh Grease, Natalia Keskeny, ....