Where is the most beautiful funeral? (2010)

"Close to the audience and yet enraptured. The choreographer and dancer Litsa Kiousi keeps the suspence for a long time. It seems as even the silence in the room is increasing. As well as the expectations: When will something happen?Where is the most beautiful funeral? the dance-concert for a musician, a dancer and an actor that premiered on Thursday at Schaubühne Lindenfels, fascinates with its suggestive petrification – and its releasing. Barely noticable in the first moment, Kiousi´s facial features relax into a soft smile, that over expands only to deform into a soundless scream. Kiousi´s transformation into a hideous face of pain with a mouth gaping wide open - that goes deep, is mesmerising and frightening."

(Steffen Georgi, Leipziger Volkszeitung Sa/Su 16/17.October 2010)

 

"Das Tanz-Konzert von und mit der Choreografin Litsa Kiousi changiert zwischen Intimität der Einsamkeit und Massenekstase einer Rocknacht. Bewegungen, Textfragmente, Sounds und Songs werden zum fesselnden Gesamtkunstwerk."

(Kreuzer- Das Leipzig Magazin)

 

 

It is a dance-concert for 3 performers (one dancer, one actor and one musician). A living-picture that captures the atmosphere of loneliness of human beings, poeticly created by movements, words and sounds.

Loneliness has been celebrated from artists and great thinkers over centuries, welcoming, understanding and using it as source of inspiration.

But at the same time there is the other side, the dark one, where loneliness isn't welcoming, does not tame, becomes unbearable or cruel and leads to destruction.

The borderline is a vast, fragile and not always tangible territory where one needs to scream, cry, stink, hurt, cynically laugh, give up or carry on, regardless of the so-called proper behaviour.

Where is the most beautiful funeral? creates an intimate, fragile and intense environment that reveals the subjective virtues and defects of loneliness.

Credits

Concept/Choreography: Litsa Kiousi

Original music score: Sebastian Hilken

Text: Litsa Kiousi

Costums: Maartje van Bourgognie & Litsa Kiousi

Lights: Litsa Kiousi

Performed by: Sebastian Hilken, Litsa Kiousi, Marco Wittorf

 

© Litsa Kiousi

 

The work is produced by Schaubühne Lindefels Leipzig, Litsa Kiousi & Marco Wittorf.

Co-produced by Eira33 Lissabon.

Supported by Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen.