iSA

iSA - 01

- about frozen water and contained memories -

With the new performance íSA, T.r.a.s.h. is looking for a countercolour to its dynamic dance and the often violent motional language, for silence opposed to chaos. Elegance and subtle movement side by side with explosive dance. íSA is inspired by Scandinavian sagas about the pain and beauty of time passing.
In a monochromous and ethereal landscape, between the tall walls and windows of a desolate house, the legend unfolds of íSA, the ice queen. Her chilling cry sounds through the mist, message of death at hand.

íSA is like a danced folk legend of departure, seclusion, return and atonement. The performance tells a cold story about people, about that what decides us and what we can't get our grip on.

Kristel van Issum (choreographer): “Inducing this performance are thoughts on transiency; everything can perish without a reason. With íSA T.r.a.s.h. creates a performance about the quest of a soul for a body. Personas engaging into a body and disappearing, determining the sculpture and sound of a body. The simplicity, the abundance, the resolution of Nature is a source of parallels towards that incomprehension and inevitability in a human life. The international cast responds to this subject with personal biographies in which frozen water is a metaphore for their contained memories.”