The Brit Bill Aitchison and his Brussels colleague
Katja Dreyer. are dedicating themselves in FFT Juta to the concept of freewill
and coercion. Their dance performance combines Marx with the Macarena. Dancing
represents the feeling of freedom but the role of submission plays a bigger
part than one would like to wish. Whom or what are we following here?
Popular dance music comes out of the loudspeakers.
The music makes you want to dance. Five songs are constantly repeated. When one
song starts, Aitchison and Dreyer step out from behind their table and dance,
or a red light gives them the signal to appear.
Macarenca by "los del mar" starts with
stretching your arms and then folding your lower arms. Everyone knows it. Like
the Birdie Song by the Tweets: the hands imitate chirping beaks, followed by
knee bends, ass slaps, hip shakes. It looks totally stupid. Usually it is the
masses that dance these dances. Later on the
music accelerates or slows down, then the Birdie Dance looks heavy, like work
on big machines.
"You are an individual. You came here through
your own free will" a voice announces authoritatively from the outside. Everybody
feels addressed, everybody believes it. Then
another announcement follows: "That
decision was made long before you were even born." They talk about the
Neanderthals and the five stages of history that lead to communism, "you
are not responsible for the Euro crisis!" A highly amusing and intelligent
little spectacle about the big question of freedom.
Melanie Suchy Rheinishe Post 2012
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