A TRUTH, A LIE AND A LIST OF POSSIBILITIES
„At the moment we see something beautiful, we undergo a radical decentering. Beauty lifts us, letting the ground rotate beneath us several inches, so that when we land, we find we are standing in a different relation to the world than we were a moment before”. Elaine Scarry
A truth, a lie and a list of possibilities is the first performance from the trilogy Beauty – Disgust – Utopia, in which choreographer Andreea Novac turns her attention to beauty, understood as a communication experience or as an act of discovery, bare of esthetical promises.
„I don’t treat beauty as an object or as an esthetical quality, but more like a specific interaction between the spectator and the performer, which implies a transfer of power, a transformative experience, always unstable, enthralling and releasing at the same time, a reason for which, often, gives us lots of trouble”. Andreea Novac
A truth, a lie and a list of possibilities will premiere on September 21st at the National Centre for Dance Bucharest and will be accompanied, in September and October, by 4 theoretical conferences on the theme of beauty from the sociological, philosophical, fashion design and image perspectives
CONFERENCES:
„A truth, a lie and a list of possibilities” was accompanied by 4 theoretical conferences that addressed beauty from the sociological, philosophical, clothing design and image perspectives:
The body as a project: Beauty and Society – held by doctor in sociology Gabriel Jderu
About the beaty that doesn't leave us alone – held by associate professor Cristian Iftode
On an eternal search for beaty – held by art critic and historian Daria Ghiu
The human body in fashion and postmodernism – held by fashion designer Venera Arapu
THE TEAM:
Concept: Andreea Novac
Choreography and interpretation: Andreea Belu, Cristina Lilienfeld, Andreea Novac
Sound Design: Shamamanu'
Light Design: Alexandros Raptis
Costume Design: Sabina Suru
Produced by: Asociația Developing Art
Co-funded by Administrația Fondului Cultural Național