Black Box: First Movement - Boris de Klerk & Finn Borath
Black Box: First Movement is an interdisciplinary performance in which stage-tech itself is the main character. In this choreography of rotating stage lights, wavering curtains and tumbling microphone stands, a composition is made with everything that is normally present in the theatre, but deprived of attention. The buzzing of the lights being switched on, the whirring machinery of the lowering light grid, air conditioning, squeaky chairs and the feedback of distorting microphones. A first step in Finn Borath and Boris de Klerk’s research on how the black box, designed to give space to the performers and the set, can be seen as the show itself.
WATER ME - Corina Mitrovici
I love snacking, and especially when I stuff my face with artistic crushes and utopian artistic fantasies. The song ‘You Can Have It All’ by George McCrae is a good groovy example. This is how I’ve been in my relationship with you and with my work. And as songs have always been there for me in troublesome times, so have you, my dearest audience — my carnivorous plants that have pushed me to come forth with new suggestions for a perfectly lazy work. Here is one where we can get that entertainment from our seat, from our feet or, in my case, from laying down.
As a kid I dreamt of becoming a drummer. Funny that I graduated choreography school with a comedy show and a fake concert. Thank you for being there, always
Come inside and water me. I’m dying to see your faces again.
Over de makers
Boris de Klerk en Finn Borath maken sinds 2019 samen performances, waaronder Entrissen Sind Wir dem Tageslicht en Wo bist du, Licht?, die allebei op de Toneelacademie Maastricht gemaakt werden en Black Box: First Movement die in 2023 in residentie bij Zaal 3 / Het Nationale Theater werd gemaakt.
In hun samenwerking staan de zintuigen van het publiek en het theater als construct dat die zintuigen bespeelt centraal. Vanuit verschillende invalshoeken (licht, geluid, muziek, video) proberen ze het theater te bespelen en zijn ze altijd op zoek naar surrealistische manieren om de zintuigen opnieuw te rangschikken. Door het theater en de theatertechniek daarbinnen niet als iets voor ‘achter de schermen’ maar als onderwerp en als materiaal te benaderen komen ze tot vernieuwende manieren van nadenken over theater. Kan een lamp niet de soundtrack van een voorstelling worden en hoe zou het zijn als alle lampen op het tikken van de regen aan en uit gaan?
Corina Mitrovici creates spaces where the work can arrive curious and aroused. Hanging out at the border between performance, social space and performative interventions, her works manage to easily create performative instances through dreamy atmospheres and meditative soundscapes.
As a comic, she likes to challenge the situation of making and question the looks of success in the performing arts field.
As a choreographer, Corina seeks to better her craft and designing a perfectly lazy way of making, while meeting with the public with joy, focus and comfort.
As a dancer and performer: In 2017 she received the danceWEB scholarship, she performed in festivals like ImPulsTanz, Viena (with the work of Valentina de Piante – M.E.L.T.) in 2016 and Aerowaves 2018 (with Counterbody – Simona Deaconescu).
As a maker: she taught a Fake Creative Lab at the National Dance Center, Bucharest (2022) and showed her graduation works in Frascati and Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond (2023), graduating from SNDO in 2023.
