CONFESSIONS- THE AUTOPSY OF A PERFORMANCE (2003 - 35`)

July 25 at 5 pm VPK Theatre

What is the presence of a performer?
Does construction feed falsification?
How does the manipulation of presence instruct the perception of a performance?
In Confessions-The autopsy of a performance presence takes the leading role, guides the piece and brings the awareness on the absurdity of theatre, on the construction of a lie that is built to be believed in.

(Physical) Images and text lead the spectators into a world where lies are sometimes true and facts unimportant.
An excess of manipulation and speculation giving birth to a sincere and curious approach to what live performance is today and questioning its value as such.
Confessions is essentially a meeting between the performer, the audience and the stage that keeps them apart.

Looking at acting as a form of non-acting in order to arrive at a distance from the artificiality of performance only to return to it again from a different perspective.
Looking for harmony between dead energy and live presence, stretching the tension between formalism and naturalism, environment and action.
Questioning the appearance of ‘reality’ on stage and finding ways of unravelling stagnated forms of representation in order to initiate a need and curiosity for changes in theatrical presentation.

Nada Gambier

Nada Gambier was born in Finland in 1980. She studied dance at The Place in London before joining the second cycle at Parts 2000-2002 (Performing Arts Research and Training Studios founded by Anna Teresa De Keersmaeker), Brussels. With her first solowork “Fragments of ReMembering but Forcing to Forget” she performed in the frame of Parts@Tour in Belgium, Slovenia and Portugal. In 2002 she was granted a scholarship from the Arts Council of Finland to participate in the Danceweb programme at Impulstanz Festival in Vienna.

 Her solo “Confessions- The autopsy of a performance” (2003), produced by the Choreographisches  Zentrum NRW/PACT Zollverein, Essen, within the framework of DEPARTS, is still touring Europe.

In 2004/2005 she took part in “Beginnings/Endings”, a creation by Charlotte Vanden Eynde (premiered in Springdance Festival, Utrecht, April 2005). In 2005/2006 she made her first full- evening length production ‘Act of Living – catalogue of failure’ together with Kwint Manshoven and Ugo Dehaes.