Hygiene Museum Dresden, November 23 2019

choreography: MASSIMO GERARDI
music: DIRK P. HAUBRICH

1 Everybody stands outside the HOUSE in different points of the space/hall . Moving independently but  at the same time like in a wave coming from different directions, they cross the HOUSE literally passing through it, avoiding or climbing over the obstacles (furniture) to end on the opposite side, outside of the HOUSE. Repeating this action a couple of times until someone instead of avoiding the obstacles melts with it or adapts to it and  stay in the HOUSE. One by one the others stay and adapt as well. So everyone is in contact with the own body to one of the piece of furniture making oneself comfortable with the environment. After reaching  a still moment, a rotation is starting: all together, sort of rhythmically, (every eight counts for example) change to another piece of furniture (including some rewind in it, also musically? using different dynamics) and so on, until everyone gets together, all sharing a piece a furniture. There a sort of communication starts, with bodies entwining around each other, sharing weight and movement.

2 Maybe at this point insert a registration of their voices overlapping each other (do you agree Dirk? I can do this myself) or the music stops and they move while speaking?  After a while somebody steps out of the group. A second person follows him/her while the group slows down in a very slow SLOW-MOTION. Between the two “outsiders” starts a relation. Later a second couple starts a duet too.

3 Shifting the action back to the rest of the group something thing happens: there is almost an invisible magnetism to the “furniture” which make the dancers stay attached to it. They try to oppose to this force but it brings them back to it. One man finally releases himself to find out the he gets stuck with another piece of furniture. The other men succeeds to release himself completely and helps the other getting off, until step by step they all succeed in releasing. A tension is created by this situation, everybody hops or jumps on place (like in the flyer) while one is motionless in the centre…

4 Big Bang (also with sound?): escape from HOME, everyone moves in different directions away from the centre the HOUSE. But arriving to a certain distance, some invisible, elastic strings pull them back to the centre of the HOUSE. Everyone but one person is trying to fight (but using as well) the elasticity of the strings, which sound like guitar strings, when they are pulled this back and forth motion.  One person, a woman, is frozen there in the middle of the room while the others are moving as if they were trapped in a spider web. Slowly one by one they detach and disappear in the crowd.

5 Alone, the woman doesn’t feel alright. A trembling/shivering motion sets in which literally compels her from one point to the other in the space of this now empty HOUSE. This shivering drives the person mad, her movement becomes dangerous to herself, as she hits with her body different pieces of furniture. The sound of this banging becomes in her mind louder and louder (reflected in the music?) until she steps on the highest table and jumps towards the outside…

6 Two men catch her still in the air, before she touches ground. They are like angel/savers/supporters, carrying her in the flight she just initiated. She feels finally free, away from the oppressing PRISON/HOME. This turns out to be just a dream as the two men bring her back into the home and lay her on one of the pieces of furniture recognisable as a “bed” and leave.

7 From further away we hear laughers, a group of four women is approaching the HOUSE. Their movement remind almost the one of a drunk person or under the effect of drugs. Their reality is completely twisted so that when entering the HOUSE they collide into the furniture or use it to lean in very awkward positions and shapes. Initially they move different from one another until they establish a common rhythm and move in unison inside the HOUSE. Gradually the “sleeping woman” joins in and the two men come back into the scene as well, all together in this boneless distorted movements. This reminds to a sort of  HOUSE-party, at which end, everybody is exhausted and lies motionless on the floor or on a piece of furniture.