POST REALITY VISION [part zero]

[March 2018, Carriageworks, Keir Choreographic Award] Nana Biluš Abaffy w/ Milo Love & Geoffrey Watson Of all the plethora of images and artefacts we have at our disposal – to place in front of all this the body – it’s so simple it’s almost confusing. The work is interested in the confrontation of the body vs all the un-reality we’ve built. The presentation of the body as proof that reality still exists. This piece deals with the brutal dance marathons of the great depression, where contestants danced continuously for up to 7 months, an early form of reality tv where audience could come and go 24 hours a day to watch. Unemployed people entered the competition because they were given food but had to keep dancing while they ate it. They were only allowed to sleep for 10 minutes at a time so many went crazy committed suicide or died of exhaustion. This piece is also about the strange discovery that Michelangelo’s only known self portrait is in the form of St Bartholem