experimental dance projectMORE BEAUTY, LESS BEAUTY
Alicia Grant, Nikos Konstantakis, Goran Vrbanić, Barnaby Tree and Damian Nenadić

Buda Art Center, Kortrijk / February 2013

‘'More beauty, less beauty' is an experimental dance and performance piece that explores the crisis points of performance systems that alter the course of performance on a structural and esthetic level and change the conditions for esthetic evaluation and interpretation. The guiding principle of the experiment with instructions and intensity limitations for the operative performance machines is to find the performance mechanisms that allow for a different piece in each new performance. The mechanisms are based on the choreographic process of repetition with variations, deriving movement from a simple gesture enacted in a precise and highly conditioned performance moment: The gesture is frozen, abstracted, and framed to induce a new construction of a performance sequence that is released into a narrative or abstract stage setting through the temporal frame of each repetition, creating waves of flows and fluid transformations of images that emerge from each other in an endless flow of metamorphosis. This piece creates a different referential paradigm with each performance, as a kaleidoscope of choreographed storytelling, presenting crisscrossing choreo stories that boast a dance comic strip in the grotesquely bubbling and blue synchronized movements.

Produced by University of Zagreb-Student Centre Zagreb-Culture of Change-&TD Theatre within the „Apap-Performing Europe“ project
The project has been funded with support from the European Commission