IMAGINARY CONFINEMENTS #1 broken fragments

Video Dance
Launched in June 2020 

Video-dance made during the first lockdown of the Covid-19 Pandemic.
A reflection on the repetitiveness of daily life and home spaces.




Lockdown starts.
I ask myself how being confined can affect my work.

I walk around.
Get stuck in repetition – one body, one space.

At first, this was a crisis.
Then, it became a game.
Me versus some furniture and objects.
We try to figure out how we had not yet communicated.
What we had not yet seen.

Someone else joins.
She is also stuck somewhere, in her own repetition.
I don’t see her, though. She seems like… sound?

Movement rises, patterns rise.
A dance begins.
Duet-trio-quartet.
I cannot count anymore.

Right now, all of this is a video.
Are we stuck inside the screen?


CREDITS:

Choreography/Editing: Ana Clara Montenegro
Music: Gala Naseva
Camera Work: Alice Nogueira
Length: 9’16’’

This work was first shown in June 2020 at the festival Theater Maschine and in October 2020 at the HTA-Woche - showcase of selected works from students of the Hessische Theater Akademie.

Funded by Härtefall- und Notfallfonds des Kulturdezernats Frankfurt am Main