... Deus ex Machina, is a hoot, yet buried in its slapstick, at times camp, humour lies a deeper vein of a more serious melancholy.
Dance Europe Magazine
Ali Mahbouba
January 2011.
photos Daisy Komen
Dancers are quite familiar with the association between transformation and Art.
With the idea of the natural physical body being something to manipulate and transform.
It is something they start doing, from a very young age, since the moment they step in a dance studio.
Departing from this I started to look back in history.
Soon I realized that the supreme example of this physical transformation in the name of Art is the art of the Castrati.
The Castrati were the singing superstars of the 18th Century. But once they were also boys who were making a major
physical sacrifice for their singing careers. I believe there are echoes in modern culture of this link between changing physical
form and sacrifice as part of performance; dance could be one of them. For this new work, this parallelism between those two
worlds has been constant source of inspiration.
... Deus ex Machina, is a hoot, yet buried in its slapstick, at times camp, humour lies a deeper vein of a more serious melancholy.