| Cesarean Section. Essays on suicide |
 Performers/Musicians: Ditte Berkeley, Kamila Klamut, Matej Matejka, Nini Julia Bang, Tomasz Bojarski, Aleksandra Kotecka, Ewa Pasikowska. Project Leader: Jaroslaw Fret Collaboration on music: Mariana Sadowska Collaboration on physical score: Vivien Wood Lights: Bartosz Radziszewski  About the performance Cesarean Section, subtitled Essays on suicide:"Let Albert Camus speak: There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer" (Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus)  The title of the performance is essentially a metaphor for the need to commit suicide and the suicidal state – the fatal force, the force of salvation, holding onto everybody in order to keep going. This utterance is about a possible and necessary ability to prolong one’s own breath in a moment when one feels pieces of glass in ones veins that have not yet managed to reach the heart. The main line of the musical structure in the performance is built on the base of Corsican polyphonic songs, into which Bulgarian, Romanian, Icelandic and Chechenian songs have been interwoven. The energy of the elaborated music owes a debt to Erik Satie and his recognition of the force conveyed by each drop of sound. The traditional music material has been transformed into a modern form and enhanced by an intensive movement score. We are unable to express how much the performance owes to Aglaya Veteranyi.The preview presentations of the performance took place in Florence in May 2007 at Roberto Bacci's invitation as part of the festival Fabbrica Europa. |