..8th..INTERNATIONAL.FESTIVAL.of.ALTERNATIVE.and.NEW.THEATRE.-.NOVI SAD.2002
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23:00..Chamber Scene of Serbian National Theatre
 

BAD Co. :.MAN.CHAIR..(Zagreb, CRO)

Director/coreographer: Goran Sergej Pristas

Dramaturgy: Ivana Sajko
Music: Helga Hintereger

Performers:
Nikolina Bujas, Pravdan Devlahovic, Damir Bartol Indos
 


Man.Chair was developed as work in progress piece in a form of public rehearsal with no premiere. The research was based on the repetitive capacity of authentic performance Man.Chair, performed for the first time by Damir Bartol Indos in 1982. We wonted to reconstruct, remake, remix and upgrade the original piece (which is screened on video) using dance improvisations and individual approaches of dancers towards the technical and semiotic characteristics of the original performance Man.Chair. The aim was to build a theatrical structure from the performance art piece (which was never meant to be repeated) trough the dance variations.

Man.Chair is a musically structured dance-impro performance, which avoids any thematic fulfilment. There are, rather, some parameters or rudimentary relation between body and object. In the process of development performers are focusing on the following parameters:
- Resemblance between physical characteristics of object and body
- Mental investment of energy and emotion in object
- Objectification of body
- Tension between “technical” and “natural” bodies
- Tension between order of objects and order of bodies

…Goran Sergej Pristas and Ivana Sajko have founded the “nameless author’s company” that fills the public with enthusiasm by their dance (P. Knezovic, Jutarnji list)

It is neither a theatrical nor a dancing show, it is not either a performance or a pantomimic piece, yet it combines all the elements – it is an interesting unconscious play that arises upon differences, a sort of conflict between Indos and his age, his experience different from those of Nikolina Bujas Pristas and Pravdan Devlahovic and their stories. (N. Ozegovic, Jutarnji list)

The place for the play and for the viewers is the stage of &TD, the only scenery of this intimate but very successful experiment are the walls painted in black oil paint. Three bodies dressed in white underwear and three broken chairs make, let us call it that way, an existential hexagon – twitching movements, nervous tics, and stylized masturbation are symptoms of fear from one’s own sexuality which says: it is impossible to communicate with another living being if one does not start reigning over him or else if one is not subordinated by him (T. Cadez, Globus)

Touching dance dialogues… the performances of this kind are not only desired and expected delicacies but also the viewers’ curiosities, the curiosities that are not only several hundred kilometres away from our cultural climate but even some hundred spiritual miles away (I. Djerdj, Glas Slavonije)

...BAD Co.
Theatre group Bad Co. was founded in 2000 while some of the authors worked together on the project Confessions in Theatre &TD.
In November 2000 Bad Co. realized its first production Man.Chair.
In January 2001 the group had the performance of their dance project 2tri4 which won Grand Prix at the “Tendencies” choreographic competition in Luxembourg.
The performance 2tri4 was a part of the Aerowaves program in London 2002. In August 2001 the group premiered live art piece Diderot’s Nephew Or Blood Is Thicker Then Water in co-production with Split Summer Festival, Theatre &TD and Art Workshop Lazareti in Dubrovnik.

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