THE FORK

a show created by [minus 20] collective

The story of Terrier family danced and sung by an european artists crew.

Project description

by Wojtek

Paul Eluard once wrote: „A woman is more beautiful than the world in which I live; and so I close my eyes.”

In this spirit [Minus 20] is proud to present its debut performance „The Fork” - a journey to the center of the unexplainable.

The collective consisting of Polish dance theatre makers Harakiri Farmers, Norwegian choreographer/performer Kenneth Flak and French composer/musician/inventor David Chazam explores the banal world of love story in search of what is lurking in the shadow.

They strongly believe that if you look at something long enough you can always discover things that you have never seen before. It is like with “Empire Strikes Back” - it takes time to discover that one asteroid is a shoe and the other one a potato. And love's the same. If you keep looking at it, it starts to look like a potato.

In “The Fork” the artists do not present any fancy psychological theory or tailor-made concept of sociopolitical reality but utilize the strategy of surrealist poets and absurdist comedians – shoot first and look for the target later because there is always one at the end of the bullet's trail anyway.

Strongly believing in the “anything goes” principle as the most effective method of investigation [Minus 20] create a performance that is a mixture of mime, musical, dance theatre and stand-up comedy.

Pop songs, sheer physicality, noise, twenty pink fingers - it is all there!

The audience follows a story of Anjelica and Wilbur, two kindred spirits who are not kindred actually.

They meet, they mate, they collaborate. With whom and why?

The answers are partial and motivations vague. But it is not answers that the artists seek.

The story is never in the story. It is in what we do with it.

Therefore what [Minus 20] presents are images, glimpses, suggestions for each person in the audience to play with.

It does not mean that “The Fork” is a spineless creature.

Yet, the spine is always twisting and bending. Some say that when a boy meets a girl hell breaks loose.

What if they are right ?

Paul Eluard once wrote: “Elephants are contagious”.

In this spirit [Minus 20] is proud to present its debut performance “The Fork”

- a journey to the center of... the fork.

Music

by David

I'd pretend the music I wrote today was created yesterday, and you will listen to it tomorrow. Following the Residents, I always enjoy to put the mirror in front of the music and the styles, in order to get some answers, or to create some new question about it. Since I have been the partner of Jean Jacques Perrey I have lost any trace of shyness with POP music – before ! I was almost afraid to write melodies, even to appreciate them... For the creation of the music for THE FORK I needed to explore some sides of POP music and to put them in « conflict » with extremely different colors ; nice and boring music would be the antagonist side of the musical « ginger roof » of our house. A nice house, with four windows, warm and happy, before... download down here 8 tracks created and produced during the first parts of our work. Some texts are mine, some other are Wojtek's. We all three onstage are singing as well.

Dance

Partners involved

[Minus 20] (Europe)
Konstnärsnämnden (Stockholm)
Cultures France (F)
Mairie de Bordeaux (F)
Bergen International Theatre (Oktoberdans Festival)
Burdąg Foundation (Poland)
Avantart Festival (Wrocław)

CV's

Kenneth Flak is a Norwegian Stockholm-based choreographer and dancer. In 2007 he received a New York Dance and Performance Award for his interpretation of André Gingras’ CYP17. He has toured the world extensively with a number of choreographers, including Norwegian Dansdesign, American Richard Siegal and Swedish Charlotta Öfverholm. He currently teaches at Danshögskolan and Balettakademin. www.kennethflak.com

Harakiri Farmers is a Polish artistic collective based in Krakow founded by dancer, actress and choreographer Dominika Knapik and Wojtek Klimczyk, theatre director and sociologist. Among their works are: "Keret", an adaptation of short stories of Etgar Keret for which they received the first prize in "New Situation" contest during the Malta Festival 2008, "Beat Hotel" based on the life and work of Allen Ginsberg and "We Are Oh So Lucky" inspired by "Waiting for Godot". In their creations HaFa mixes dance, theatre and performance art using aesthetics that is both minimalistic and humorous. www.myspace.com/harakirifarmers

Chazam is a French composer based in Bordeaux that works in different musical and show paradigms like: contemporary dance, boring theater, radio drama creation, improvised music and electropoppy punk music with no inhibitions in wild clubs. www.chazam.org

Technical riders

ONLINE DOCUMENTS

The music DEMOS of the show click here to download and unzip full version album

Photos of this page were made by Kuba Dąbrowski & Monika Kucel