The Lost Art of Being
Megaron Underground Athens, 2018) / The Place Theatre (London, 2019) / Corporation Mobile Festival (Rome) 2018
Featuring four females, the piece explores the notion of being which the human kind tends to neglect due to the hectic nature of the every-day modern life patterns.
The piece delves into interpretations of the words: coexistence, distortion, and adaptation while questioning human nature. The dualism of unity and alienation amongst human beings is being explored through movement and sound.
‘The Lost Art of Being’ is the journey which this group of females undertake to rebuild their lives, with a constant vain attempt to adapt to a society that - by nature - cannot belong to them.
“The truths of The Lost Art of Being were of an entirely different nature: raw yet richly stylised, and delivered by four extraordinarily tough yet somehow vulnerable women (including choreographer Caterina Danzico) with exemplary and at times convulsive tribal intensity. Driven by sound artist Jeph Vanger’s epic and immersive electronic score, they fully inhabit a stark, mysterious stage universe in which invisible currents of power, defeat, animal instinct, communal connection and explosive aggression impact the air they breathe. Danzico, Vanger and company could be onto something big here: a dance work that’s almost a metaphor for the survival of a species.''
Review by Donald Hutera
