A documentation of a dance performance including projection by Donna Miranda in the bathroom of the headquarter of "Brunnenstrasse Productions".
March 2, 2008
"Complete with vows of unending love ...
A documentation of a dance performance including projection by Donna Miranda in the bathroom of the headquarter of "Brunnenstrasse Productions". March 2, 2008
"Complete with vows of unending love till death do us part, a dance ensues. Long after the 'high' has settled into the dust another attempt yet awaits. Follow we do! The trail of pleasure luring us back into the vicious cycle of trial and errors. Some rage resting underneath broken tiles, misty bathroom mirrors and confessional toilet seats. The persistent persists. Never say die for tomorrow we drink! Like Sisyphus pushing the rock, Of Course Not this is a Bathtub continues on with the road trip in Berlin, Germany
After a full-length proper 'stage' presentation in Yokohama, Japan, Donna Miranda takes the comfort albeit betraying privacy of an apartment bathroom in Brunnenstrasse, Berlin. Feeding the delightful voyeur, tracing intimate glances in between breaths, the live solo dance shall take place in the confines of a bathroom whilst filmmaker Truong Ngu feeds the live documentation to a TV in the living room as audience and happening bleed into one. In this conspired activity, the performance brings each one of us into a melodrama of the everyday.
Of course not, this is a bathtub gives face to the nameless melodrama of our everyday frames of experience. Paddling between stubborn hope and grief, desperate wisdom and intentional blindness, we trick our bodies into a mindful compromise of life driven by purpose. This solo dance piece fishes into the discourse of the absurd via the symbolic articulation of a world allied by fears and anxiety via melodramatic allusions to love, desire, poverty and sentimental songs that lead to the comic tragedy of our chosen paths. A woman sits in front of an empty bathtub. Silent with delirium, resignation gradually consumes her body, like a banyan root creeping up and eating its host. In this state of submission, what else is she still waiting for?"
Organized by Vanini Belarmino with the support of Goethe Insitut, Brunnenstrasse Productions and Green Papaya Art Projects. Camera and Editing: Truong Ngu
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