
Oriantheatre Dance Company (Francuska/France) – Ka-f-ka

ORIAN – na perzijskom jeziku označava koncept nagosti koja nije nužno povezana s tijelom i seksualnošću, već i s čistoćom, a time i s istinom.
ORIANTHEATRE – je francuska plesno-kazališna družina osnovana 2011. godine pod umjetničkim vodstvom francusko-iranskog koreografa Mehdija Farajpoura. Družina je zamišljena kao međunarodna mreža umjetnika različitih profila i iz različitih disciplina. ORIANTHEATRE je usmjeren na izgradnju novog koreografskog jezika koji je na granici vizualne, digitalne i izvedbene umjetnosti.
Ka-f-ka je najautobiografskiji rad Mehdija Farajpoura po pitanju estetike, pokreta, ritma i slika. Polazište predstave je u gotovo polsatnom trčanju unatrag prije početka same izvedbe. Prva slika koju vidimo je plesač s ošamućenom glavom, grčevima u mišićima, bez daha i ravnoteže uslijed napora. Što može pokazati iscrpljeno tijelo? Kako preopterećeno tijelo može plesati? Priča je to o svima i nikome. Čovjek, izgubljen u rutini vlastitog života, budi se da bi otkrio kako je pretvoren u drugo biće. Pati od izolacije, samoće, gladi i boli, ali svejedno nastavlja trčati kroz sve svoje društvene i individualne obveze.
Izvedba nadahnuta vizualnim univerzumom Franza Kafke, slobodna je interpretacija njegovih Preobrazbi. Poput Farajpourovih drugih radova, utemeljena je na interdisciplinarnoj (ne multidisciplinarnoj) strukturi, što znači da se kreće između različitih disciplina umjesto da ih miješa miješanja radi.
Koncept, režija, koreografija i izvedba/Concept, Direction, Choreography & Performance: Mehdi Farajpour
Pokretna grafika (bazirana na originalnom konceptu i partiturama Mehdija Farajpoura) i /Motion graphics (based on original concepts and scores of Mehdi Farajpour): Stéphane Bordonaro, Monumentiel Company & Mehdi Farajpour
Video umjetnost/Video Art: Mehdi Farajpour
Zvuk/Sound: Arnaud Rollat
Fotografije/Photos: Nick Bowers
Produkcija/Produced by: ORIANTHEATRE Dance Company
Potrebno je preuzeti ulaznicu uz participaciju od 1. eura. The tickets should be picked up in advance with a participation fee of 1 euro.
Molimo isključite mobitele. Please, switch off your mobile phone.
Zabranjeno fotografiranje i snimanje. No photography or video
ORIAN – in Persian language refers to the notion of nudity that is not necessarily related to the body and sexuality, but to the purity too, thus to the truth.
ORIANTHEATRE – established in France in 2011 – is a French dance-theatre company under the artistic supervision of a Franco-Iranian choreographer Mehdi Farajpour. The company’s structure is designed as an international network of artists coming from
different disciplines and artistic backgrounds.
ORIANTHEATRE is focused on building a new choreographic language that stands on the border of visual, digital and performing arts.
Ka-f-ka is Mehdi Farajpour’s most autobiographical work in terms of aesthetics, movement, rhythm and images. Running backward around a circle for almost half an hour before starting the performance is just the beginning. A dancer with a dizzying head, muscular contractions, out of breath and unbalanced by fatigue is the first image you see. What does an exhausted body have to show? How can an overwhelmed body dance? It is the story of everyone and no one. A man, lost in the routine of his life, awakes to discover that he is transformed into another being. He suffers from isolation, solitude, hunger and pain, but yet keeps running all through his social-individual obligations.
Inspired by Franz Kafka’s Visual universe, the performance is a free interpretation of his Metamorphosis. Like Farajpour’s other performances, it is also built up on an interdisciplinary (and not multidisciplinary) structure, that means it walks in between different disciplines instead of mixing them just for the sake of it.