Passive Movement
Lucie Tuma
To move or to be moved? To act or being acted upon? Passivity is known as the unloved and ill sister of activity. Activity is productive, constructive, attractive, lucrative – in short: it is good. Passivity is bad since it doesn't lead you anywhere, it is mute and stupid: it's all your own fault if you don't budge. The dance performance «Passive Movement» wants to free passivity from the pathological realm and test if it is really all up to activity to get the ball rolling.
Credits
A plastic cup folds. A couple of clouds are chasing each other. A cricket is chirping. A computer screen shows the time left to download something and someone is leaning against the wall. Movement is in every thing, the actively acting person is only one thing among many. And: movement always happens between several things. Nobody acts alone but always in connection with other things. All are active and passive at the same time, it simply shifts from one to another like a balance. In this sense, «Passive Movement» is no contradiction. On the contrary: passivity is an indispensable, very effective and poetic form of movement.
Five dancers share the stage with a couple of games and left over, rebellious or forgotten but maybe still desired objects. The choreography is expanded onto balls, sneakers, abandoned sports equipment, spot lights and loudspeakers, onto human and non-human bodies. These are in a continuous relation of exchange, they pass on opportunities for action and create movement together. Lucie Tuma & Co invite you into a space of leisure, of engaged conversation and focused distraction.
Konzept, Regie Lucie Tuma Von und mit Ewelina Guzik, Julie Laporte, Andreas Liebmann, Sophia Ribeiro, Uri Turkenich Dramaturgie Maximilian Haas Akustik Julia Krause Raum Valeria Felder Assistenz Lara Gysi Beratung Licht Christa Wenger Grafik Tomas Brader, Komun GmbH Fotografie Caroline Palla Produktion Franziska Schmidt, Stranger in Company Eine Produktion von Lucie Tuma mit Gessnerallee Zürich Gefördert von Stadt Zürich Kultur, Kanton Zürich – Fachstelle Kultur und der Fondation Nestlé pour l'Art, Parrotia-Stiftung und der Ernst Göhner Stiftung Unterstützt durch Fitness Shop