The starting point for the dance performance (ah ah ah) (theatre version) is the essay On the Marionette Theatre, written in 1801 by the German poet Heinrich von Kleist, which becomes the subject of Juliette Uzor’s étude.
In Kleist’s essay, the dancer C. and a walker discuss the peculiarities of puppetry and the relationship between the marionette and the machinist, who must master komplex finger skills in order to make the marionettes dance.
Fascinated by the artificiality of the text and its mind games, (ah ah ah) raises questions about (body)language, gravity and the (re)presentation and orientation of today’s bodies and plays with the attractiveness of artificial intelligence. In which directions do those strings run, which fingers hold on to them, and who is dancing there?
For (ah ah ah), Juliette Uzor devotes herself to the complex relationship between movement and language. Together with the invited artist Axelle Stiefel aka The Operator, (ah ah ah) goes to places where sound, rhythm, imagery and the meaning of words follow their own logic.
With glitches and syncopations, this narrative is united in the unpredictability of body languages. As a stage setting, created by Juliette Uzor, a water dispenser of the brand Eden stands there, ready to quench the bodies’ thirst. A green beaded curtain becomes the pleasurable nature of the spectacle itself.

by Juliette Uzor

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