THE PHYSICAL ORDER OF POWER
How does power operate? What does it produce? How does it affect people and things?
THE PHYSICAL ORDER OF POWER, STUDY CIRCLE 1 is the first part of an artistic research created as collaboration between three choreographers: Ida E. Larsen, Marie-louise Stentebjerg and Sara Gebran.
The research is based on the manifestation of power, investigating how power relations inherited from the past has structured our imaginaries, social relations, history and stage history (relations between audience, artists, architecture, socio-political context), and what are our possibilities for reassembling unexpected wished future scenarios.
This first ‘study circle’ consisted on a 3 weeks reading, discussing, analyzing, practicing and proposing questions around this subject, which lead the group to a public presentation of a small part of the research (see trailer) and to a post research period of documentation, producing several artistic writing practices, which are also choreographic performative practices as: “A collective editing writing”, and 3 texts by Sara Gebran (download attached text).
This first ‘study circle’ finished in December 2014.
The second ‘study circle’ will start in March 2015 until December 2015.
SARA GEBRAN's works are situated within the performance art field, exploring ways of representing the body in relation to various dimensions: the social, cultural and political, the displacement of time and space, and the mixing medias (film, photography, text, voice, etc.) in order to create and investigate new experiences produced between the audience and the performers, while searching for how to generate different perspectives.
Since 2012, Sara shares her time between being Head of the Education in Choreography at the Danish National School of Performing arts, and continues choreographing, performing and researching. She has a BA & MA in urban planning, and a BA in dance. Had shown her works internationally since 1994 until the present.
Since 2010 she decided to only work in collaboration with other artists, as a way to defy isolation, individualization, the marketing rush and the deadly identification claustrophobia. She dreams of a female distribution system.
