El 6 de julio la pieza INTER.FEAR, de Hansel Nezza y Athena Mazarakis, ha sido seleccionada y será estrenada en el Main Programme del National Arts Festival de Grahamstown, Sudáfrica.
Una pieza documentada y creada entre Berlín, Barcelona y Johannesburgo.
INTER.FEAR
Choreography and Performance: Athena Mazarakis & Hansel Nezza
Interactive Digital Artist: Tegan Bristow
Designer: Jenni-lee Crewe
Lighting Designer: Barry Strydom
Original Musical Score: Liannallull & Hansel Nezza
Technical Director: Barry Strydom
Production for MARÀBULA barcelona • berlin: Agnes Forn
Inter.Fear is an artistic co-production between South African choreographer and performer, Athena Mazarakis, and Hansel Nezza, choreographer, performer and artistic director of MARÀBULA barcelona • berlin. Their collaboration creates an immersive theatrical encounter that delves into that most basic, common and essential human emotion: fear.
Inter.Fear weaves together a raw physicality with an evocative stage design and cutting edge interactive digital art to explore the constant and insidious presence of fear in our contemporary lives – a presence that mediates and interferes with our every encounter.
The material for the work is sourced and researched across three cities: Barcelona, Berlin and Johannesburg. Inter.Fearhowever looks beyond the triggers of fear specific to each of these particular socio-political contexts. Instead, through the poetic universe created, it enters the fabric and texture of fear inhabited by bodies across these cities. Bodies that are biologically hard-wired to respond to danger, to threat, to the unknown, to the shadow. Bodies trapped in states of fearfulness, bodies that struggle to connect because of this ‘inter.fearance’.
Mazarakis and Nezza, inspired by a global context in which our most basic human reactions and biological hardwiring are so often and so easily manipulated, submerge themselves in this space of ‘inter.fearance’, to bring you a provocative and unnerving piece of theatre where the characters are unable to switch off the fear mechanism.
Tegan Bristow’s breathtaking interactive digital interfaces alongside Jenni-lee Crewe’s sparse poetic stage design and Liannallull and Nezza’s haunting score combine to draw the audience into the twilight spaces of the psyche where their fears reside.
Inter.Fear, as presented by the National Arts Festival, emerges out of a shorter work originally commissioned by, and presented at, Dance Umbrella 2012. The initial phase of Inter.Fear was generously supported by Dance Umbrella 2012, the Goethe-Institut South Africa and the Embassy of Spain in South Africa: Mzansicultura.