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20:00 | Attention: The Doors are Closing! |
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 Ivan Perez, the star resident choreographer of the leading Dutch production house Korzo (Hague), tries to draw confines of personal space, social boundaries and frames of his time in his "Attention: The doors are closing!". This is a co-production with the Russian ballet company Theater Ballet Moscow. "Attention: the doors are closing!" - we can hear this phrase in public transport of any country. It has not only literal meaning but also psychological one. The doors are closing but anyway you stay in a confined space with all these people around and you have got to deal with them up to next stop when the doors will open again. Ivan Perez's performance is about personal space and intimacy in the meaning of everyday dealings with other people, places or things. Also it is about social and ideological boundaries and about frames of our time. Everyone deals with these boundaries and makes his own choice. You can aim for balance and harmony, for mutual understanding and respect, but also you can frighten and depress each other. Six dancers continuously interact among themselves and show us both possibilities. The most important thing in Perez's choreography is the dancer's body and its movement. And this movement doesn't stop. Solo transfers to duets, and duets transfer to team clash or conciliation. Ivan himself determines his play's genre as physical dance performance. The Spanish choreographer Ivan Perez had been working with Jiri Kylian in Nederlands Dance Theatre. Now he works with production house Korzo.
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