«Schamrot – Im Spannungsfeld von Macht und Ohnmacht»

Me and - a look that brutally silences me. Shame. A feeling of being watched and of powerlessness. Shame, a modern, powerful, but «muted» feeling? Two performers enter into a performative - musical and dance dialogue with it, shame, and explore how it shapes and forms identity and relationships. The stage set is a landscape of plastic, a material that is suffocating and transparent at the same time, similar to shame. How can we confront a feeling that urges us to want to cancel ourselves? Under the guise of self-optimisation, over-adaptation, the exhausted self or narcissistic mortification, where do we find this quietly crying out part of ourselves? How do we escape the tension between power and powerlessness and find a constructive way of dealing with our shame?

With

Thea Heieck: (performance, dance, language)
Eugenia Guri: (piano, performance, dance)

Program

Leos Janacek (1854–1928): «Sonata 1. X.» (1905), First Movement

Bela Bartok (1881–1945): «Suite Op. 14, III. Allegro Molto»

Info

Final Project Master Music Education Course Music and Movement + School Music II Basel University of Music

Duration

45 minutes, with break