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2018
Moscow
Cover image: ???
Production
Concept and choreography
Vera Shchelkina, Vik Lashenov
Vera Shchelkina, Vik Lashenov
Co-choreography and dance
Alex Pukhov, Anna Belousova, Tanya Kovalevitch, Yuri Kordas
Alex Pukhov, Anna Belousova, Tanya Kovalevitch, Yuri Kordas
Shows
ZIL Dance House, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow
ZIL Dance House, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow
This is a work about my ex. Body. About constant separation from oneself and continuous refinement. About the gap between yourself now and yourself not now. About the desire and impossibility of stopping. About how I, the human wave, try to see myself as a particle.
The project was launched within the framework of the laboratory of young choreographers at the ZIL KC (Moscow) in 2018. In the residence at the "Station", Kostroma, we are reviewing the available material and on May 15, the premiere of the work was held at the ZIL Shopping Center, Moscow. In November 2018, we showed My Ex(body) in Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow.
Like any other person, I am constantly in relationships with others. With parents, friends, acquaintances, lovers. In this job, I'm interested in relationships with my exes. Bodies.
My body is constantly being updated at the level of cells, fascia, skin – but not only that. I manage to fix and recognize some of these bodies, but most of them slip away, I live with them and do not notice how they replace each other. I remember the body of a teenager, the body of a lover, the body of an office employee, the body of a dancer, sometimes I recognize someone else. I miss some of them, others I let go without regret.
All my former bodies and the ghosts of bodies that didn't happen are in my body at the same time. The body looks like a strange endless matryoshka doll, in which all former, future and non-separated bodies have dissolved and imprinted. I look like, I look like a werewolf – I'm constantly changing bodies, willingly and unwittingly. I shed bodies like skin, like fascia from the inside.
I look in the mirror, but I don't see myself. Cells are completely renewed every 7 years. How many times has it been 7 years?
Over and over again, I think about the relationship with my former bodies. What do they give me, besides the sadness of what is lost? Can I go back to one of them and relive this experience for myself? And if I can, what can my former body give me?
And what can I give my body?
I dig up former bodies as an archaeologist, as a scientist, as Indiana Jones, I am me again and not me again. I'm looking for an emotional, bodily, sensual resource in them. I am trying to connect them with myself in the present and I do not know what will come of it.
Like any other person, I am constantly in relationships with others. With parents, friends, acquaintances, lovers. In this job, I'm interested in relationships with my exes. Bodies.
My body is constantly being updated at the level of cells, fascia, skin – but not only that. I manage to fix and recognize some of these bodies, but most of them slip away, I live with them and do not notice how they replace each other. I remember the body of a teenager, the body of a lover, the body of an office employee, the body of a dancer, sometimes I recognize someone else. I miss some of them, others I let go without regret.
All my former bodies and the ghosts of bodies that didn't happen are in my body at the same time. The body looks like a strange endless matryoshka doll, in which all former, future and non-separated bodies have dissolved and imprinted. I look like, I look like a werewolf – I'm constantly changing bodies, willingly and unwittingly. I shed bodies like skin, like fascia from the inside.
I look in the mirror, but I don't see myself. Cells are completely renewed every 7 years. How many times has it been 7 years?
Over and over again, I think about the relationship with my former bodies. What do they give me, besides the sadness of what is lost? Can I go back to one of them and relive this experience for myself? And if I can, what can my former body give me?
And what can I give my body?
I dig up former bodies as an archaeologist, as a scientist, as Indiana Jones, I am me again and not me again. I'm looking for an emotional, bodily, sensual resource in them. I am trying to connect them with myself in the present and I do not know what will come of it.
Photo by ???. Show at Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, 2018.
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