WHO Cycle

Broken Glass Performance - United-C

Showing the performer, situated in a non-existing, artificial space, a completely new universe as if it were his or her natural environment; a biotope, a fully self-sufficient little society, fascinates me. By letting the performer operate in this made up world, all attention is being pointed on authenticity, on the genuine presence. For now, back to the source of our appearance, of our bodies. No doubt, upfront and confronting, but far from any commercial, sexual context in which people nowadays try to feel their individual nudity. Just hold our pace, excluded from all external frills.

The body confronted with just one other quantity: plain, unequivocal, artificial surroundings. This idea is inspired, amongst others, by the fascination of the Ancient Greeks for the human body. Their passion in reflecting skins texture in their sculptures, the touch and liveliness in approach of muscle stones, the attitude, in the both heroic and also vulnerability of the human body.
The shiver on the one hand and the power on the other of just ‘being’.

Indeed, the naked body passes by regularly in performances, in the Theatre, amongst other forms in our discipline. But, often in this time, also with United-C, it appears to be in order to break down a taboo, or as a symbol of freedom, or even hedonism, appealing to the spirit of the age; an understandable attempt. In my point of view, nudity is shown way to little in all silence and sincerity. A form in which we could consider the body as a wonder as well as a natural phenomenon.

No science, no religion, but pure astonishment.