OFF – Sutura
Past, present and future
as a Technoclip
The “devised theatre” project by Michal Nagy and Irina Andreeva reminds of the 1990s music videos when Electro and Techno styles controlled all the music and dance productions. The Sutura project is expressed by these music styles as well.
Three clips evoked me:
- past – children’s joy, carefreeness, and naivety
- present – danger, fragile interpersonal relations between closest persons
- future – ecological disaster, plastics without green vegetation everywhere
Do we want this kind of future for ourselves and our future generations?
Strong engaged and appellative movement performance that builds on fragile bindings of changes and time layers.
Adam Nagy
Sutura
One of the Off-programme performances of this year’s ENCOUNTER festival is the production Sutura, which was created as a graduate project of Michal Nagy a student of the JAMU Physical Theater Department in collaboration with artist Irina Andreeva and the Novogo Fronta Theater.
It is a physical theater with strong visual aspects. The creators and the actors at the same time, Michal Nagy and Irina Andreeva used the entire stage space for their performance. The dance elements were united with the rhythm of the music and the lighting effects. The production shows that particular situations, things, and relationships are somehow connected with ourselves, with our inwardness, with our very existence. This kind of connection – human and supernatural, is portrayed by slow and graceful movements. In contrast to that, the dynamical and fitful actions might be an illustration of possible broken ties that were previously integrated. The stage space is mostly shrouded in gloom, representing that other dimension mentioned.
Bára Erben (UPOL)