Monica Antezana
babel fish moves - Universal Movement Translations
SA/SAT - 27.02.2010 - 22.00
SO/SUN - 28.02.2010 - 16.00
The babel fish, which transforms its user into a polyglot, is taken from Douglas Adam‘s legendary science fiction novel The Hitchhiker‘s Guide to the Galaxy and has become meanwhile a synonym for the possibility of a universal translation of languages. Monica Antezana examines in her BABEL FISH MOVES to what extent it is possible to transfer this phenomenon to body language and dance. She questions if body language can be native, alien or can have an accent, emphasizing the relevance of the italian saying, traduttore, traditore (translator, traitor). She combines kinetics, semiotics, biology and pop culture and tests them over and over again: her work makes the progresses from RNA molecules as a translation aid, via a popcorn machine, to Michael Jackson as „Cock of Rock“ using Shakira‘s motto „Hips don‘t lie“. She tests tests, via movement translation, the popular phrase „dance is a universal language“. „For the sake of thrilling accuracy and exciting failure to understand and to be understood by dance“, Monica Antezana lets the dancing do the talking...
The Bolivian dancer and choreographer Monica Antezana obtained a bachelor‘s degree in Dance / Differentiation Choreography from the Rotterdam Dance Academy, a Master in Performance Studies in Hamburg and studied in Sciences of Education at the Major University San Simón. She is co-founder of the Contemporary Dance Company Vidanza in Bolivia. Between 2006 and 2008 she created five solo pieces, one of which is BABEL FISH MOVES. In 2007 she was artist-in-residence at the K3 Center for Choreography / Tanzplan Hamburg at Kampnagel. She choreographed her first ensemble piece, The G String Theory, in 2009.
Choreographie und Tanz | Choreography and dance Monica Antezana
Bühne | Stage set Monica Antezana, Tim John
Lichtdesign | Lighting design Sofie Thyssen
Ton | Sound Manuel Horstmann
Produktion | Produktion Monica Antezana
Eine Koproduktion mit | A cooperation with Kampnagel Hamburg, pvcTanz Freiburg - Heidelberg
Förderer | Supported by Fonds Darstellende Kunst e.V.
Dauer | Running time 40 min.
Photographie | Photography © Bo Lahola