Fabrice Mazliah
(Frankfurt)
Duet #3: The Artisan is Present
Mousonturm Probebühne 1 (4.OG)
Symposium/Dance
- 03.02.2022, 9.00 p.m.solidarity pricing system (you choose): € 5 / € 10 / € 20 / € 30
- 04.02.2022, 5.00 p.m.solidarity pricing system (you choose): € 5 / € 10 / € 20 / € 30
- 05.02.2022, 3.30 p.m.solidarity pricing system (you choose): € 5 / € 10 / € 20 / € 30
- 06.02.2022, 2.00 p.m.solidarity pricing system (you choose): € 5 / € 10 / € 20 / € 30
Elpida Orfanidou and a pontic lyra
Over the past three years, Frankfurt choreographer Fabrice Mazliah and his colleague Marialena Marouda have invited six fellow choreographers to enter into dialogue with a handmade object of their choice. Each duet unfolds the encounter between the two bodies and their consecutive intertwinement.
In the third duet of the series, the performer Elpida Orfanidou is collaborating with a pontian lyra – a traditional musical instrument from Pontos, a region in modern day Turkey adjacent to the Black Sea. The creation process of this duet unfolds simultaneously with the fabrication of the lyra itself: Elpida and her performance partner enter in a dance of manufacturing and of being manufactured in the months preceding the premiere of this creation. What is shared in this duet is this process of the craftswoman learning how to be touched while touching, shaping while being shaped, being played while playing the instrument. To enter in relation with the wood, of which the lyra is made, also implies a listening to the songs and a dancing of the dances that appear, when the bow and the strings come in contact with each other.
Duration: 60 min.
No language skills required
Cast & Credits
Konzept: Fabrice Mazliah
Choreografie: Fabrice Mazliah in Zusammenarbeit mit Elpida Orfanidou und Marialena
Marouda
Performance: Elpida Orfanidou und eine pontische Lyra
Dramaturgie: Marialena Marouda
Produktionsleitung: Johanna Milz
Eine Produktion von Fabrice Mazliah/Work of Act in Koproduktion mit dem Künstlerhaus Mousonturm und PACT Zollverein. Gefördert durch die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien im Rahmen des Bündnisses internationaler Produktionshäuser.Unterstützt durch das NATIONALE PERFORMANCE NETZ Koproduktionsförderung Tanz, gefördert von der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien. Gefördert von der Stadt Frankfurt am Main und dem Hessischen Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst.
Biography
Fabrice Mazliah
Fabrice Mazliah is a choreographer and performer based in Frankfurt / Main. Having collaborated and produced works with the Forsythe Company until its closure, Fabrice has initiated a long-term research into the embodied knowledge and heritage inscribed into practitioners in the field. He is interested in understanding and renegotiating the relationship between our environment, its objects, its atmospheres, and our bodies, ourselves and its potentialities. In his works, he regularly places the role of the receiver/perceiver in the centre of attention and celebrates the richness of possible perspectives that can be embodied on stage. His pieces provoke the collision of experiences and challenge binary views – allowing for a moment of suspension between the instants of perception and interpretation. He is interested in combining movement with language, in developing new forms of narrativity and poetry.