Groping for a perception of being
IL Y A
Location: Thomaskerk
Dates:
- GENRE: Dance, Multimedia performance, Spoken word
- THEME: Next Best Fringe Winner 2023, Rituals, Voicing the Unvoiced
- LANGUAGE: English
- Attention: a lot of sensory stimuli (light and/or sound), Trigger warning: in this performance (sexual) violence is mentioned
- Toilet for wheelchair users: yes, Wheelchair accessible: yes
There are reveries that slowly and drowsily, yet invasively, dispossess you of yourself, eclipsing your sight.
Shadow-written in a sleepwalkers’ language, this narrative is a non-narrative, devoid of continuity or direction. It speaks of a life not lived, where — even though there were indications that suggested someone was there — no one was present.
This performance is a polyphonic dialogue with non-identity, where various imageries metaphorically reveal the absence of what is ‘in sight’. Amongst a horizontal web, hybrid forms of expression transfigure and migrate through the space in which the audience resides, taking up various positions. Through moving multisensory sculptures, the bodies guide you, led by the voice of the narrator, through these spaceless spaces.
Biography
IL Y A explores new ways of seeing. Drawing from diverse experiences and practices, we reimagine concepts by moving away from binary thinking towards a more eclectic view of reality, through embracing the diverse forms that exist within each phenomenon.
We explore different ways of becoming through a variety of languages. Our collective bodily language spans (afro) urban, contemporary, Capoeira, Bharatanatyam, animal flow to ballroom. Through both tangible (material and spatial) and intangible (sonic) performative formations, we investigate the discursive and non-discursive encounters that physical and virtual spaces can evoke. These experiential visualizations range from bodily material design, nomadic spatial/auditory installations, and experimental cinematography and prose. Through this collaboratively created symbolic language, we envision new realities.