Bactéria

This is not a love story!

The Very Delicious Piece

Cristina Planas Leitão in co-creation with Jasmina Križaj

2012

“I’m just standing, waiting, since always and till always (forever) being there. Sweaty, vibrating, light-headed, stiff legged, an agitated and addicted body waiting for you. Finally I can declare myself to you. Finally I can surrender myself to you. Finally I can be pathetic. Finally I can be a drama queen. Finally I can be banal. But finally I can go beyond myself and take you with me. You are the impure and only essence of my ritual.”

The Very Delicious Piece is first and foremost a search for the long lost essentiality, intensity and insistency.

It is a limbo meeting between entertainment, being in love, a personal experience in two and how our own vibrant transformation reaches a still audience.

Shaking is the physical expression of love – a default state.

Banality is common to all… The music is an external layer of memorable “rituals”. Two glowing bodies radiating 360º, exposed but detached, induce meaning through the eyes of the viewer into relationships that physically deform us and make us addicts to drama. This is not a love story!

The Very Delicious Piece a co-production of DeVIR-Capa (Faro, PT), Platforma Festival – Plesna Izba Maribor (SI), HELLERAU European Center for the Arts Dresden (DE) within the framework of MODUL DANCE and by Maribor 2012 – European Capital of Culture.

Performance dates

26 Sep 2015

Festival Dance, Dance, Dance, Teatro das Figuras (Municipal de Faro), Faro (PT)

19 Jun 2015

MALTA FESTIVAL 2015, Poznan (PL) – Stary Browar, Studio Słodownia+3 – Program Old Brewery New Dance

8 May 2014

2ª plataforma de dança – criadores nacionais/ 2nd platform of Portuguese National Makers – Devir-CAPa, Faro (PT) – link to full program

26 May 2014

Volksroom Brussels (BE)

7 Dec 2014

No_Body Festival/ Dance Gate Lefkosia at DanceHouse Lefkosia (Nicosia)

22 Feb 2013

Gibanica (Moving Cake) Festival of Slovene Dance at Plesni Teater Ljubljana

29 Jun 2013

Spectrum Festival, Villach (AT)

29 Aug 2013

The Place, London (UK) – festival Summer House

16 Nov 2013

Volksroom Brussels, BE

12 Dec 2013

Quintas de Leitura – Teatro do Campo Alegre, Porto (PT) – (Fragment)

1 Jun 2012

CoFestival – Modul Dance – Plesni Teater Ljubljana (SI)

13 Jul 2012

I like to watch Too – Paradiso, Julidans Festival, Amsterdam (NL)

14 Jul 2012

I like to watch Too – Paradiso, Julidans Festival, Amsterdam (NL)

17 Aug 2012

Festival Polenta, Maribor/ European Capital of Culture (SI) – 20h

18 Sep 2012

Try-out at Stara Mestna Elektrarna, Bunker, Ljubljana (SI) as part of the Closing event of the Contemporary Dance Network & Gibanica on Tour.

29 Sep 2012

Modul Dance Premiere – Maribor 2012 European Capital of Culture – Slovensko Narodno Gledališče, Maribor (SI)

6 Oct 2012

Teatro Campo Alegre, Porto (PT)

12 Oct 2012

CAAA, Guimarães – European Capital of Culture (PT)

13 Oct 2012

CAAA, Guimarães – European Capital of Culture (PT)

6 Nov 2012

Hellerau – Europäisches Zentrum der Künsten, Dresden (DE)

7 Nov 2012

Hellerau – Europäisches Zentrum der Künsten, Dresden (DE)

8 Sep 2011

Presentation at Platforma, SNG – Slovensko Narodno Gledališče (Slovenia National Theater), Maribor (SI)

14 Dec 2011

Informal presentation at Hellerau – Europäisches Zentrum der Künsten, Dresden (DE)

Credits

Concept & Performance

Cristina Planas Leitão, Jasmina Križaj

Light design & Music selection

Cristina Planas Leitão, Jasmina Križaj

Dramaturgical advice

Robert Steijn, Igor Dobricic

Vocal coach

Simon Wehrli

Production

CJ (Cristina & Jasmina) & Plesna Izba Maribor

Length

aprox. 50 min

Thanks to

José Laginha, Ana Rodrigues, Mojca Kasjak, Marlene Vilhena, Nina Milin, Anja Bornsek, Simon Wehrli, Pedro Neves, Mala Kline, Nienke Scholts, Joana Ferreira, among others.

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