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SAŠA BOŽIC

THEATRE &TD, ZAGREB, CROATIA

NOSFERATU

55'

The production is a series of dance and theatre essays, diptychs addressing the bodily condition of the performer and the use of his body as a tool helping to understand the performance, it is based on Don DeLillo's novel The Body Artist and the cycle of Nosferatu films. Nosferatu continues the research and creation of hybrid forms going beyond the limits of theatre or dance productions. Whereas the Body Artist focuses on the virtuosity where the obsession with physicality becomes an artistic act, Nosferatu is about forgetting the body, placing its excesses at the point where social and theatre conventions break down. In The Body Artist we are in the space of sublimation, the unravelling of the spiritual around the bodyidea difference; in Nosferatu body is a scandal; its presence disturbs the seeming order of the socially acceptable idea about the body.

These are two formally disparate works: the genre of The Body Artist is neo-media, theatre essay for a female dancer and an actor, based on the adaptation of the novel of the same name by Don DeLillo, contemporary American novelist, critic of the double meaning character of the American social and media daily life. The discussion about problems raised by the novel: the difficulty in true communication among human beings and the basically egocentric nature or art transferred to the body, ownership of the body and also the body as an act of art or object to be displayed with the help of techniques which encompass, subvert, deride, call for attention and amuse themselves with real and terrifying forces that form our experience of the everyday life. Nosferatu is a solo for a dancer, the dedication to the films of Werner Herzog and his main actor Klaus Kinsky; it transfers fragments of Herzog's film to the performer's body with a view to creating bodily copies and ready-mades...

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