On Exhaustion or Floating Beyond One’s Own Limits
As if stillness never existed. As if we always walked and ran, without pause and without mercy. As if we feared what would happen if we stopped. That moment of silence and helplessness. Like some kind of death. So we must keep walking, to prove we are alive, so that others see us, and won’t erase us from their memories. – From the program
On Exhaustion or Floating Beyond One’s Own Limits focuses on how life conditions — social, political, economic, labor-related… — bring us into a state of constant exhaustion that becomes a regular occurrence. The performance explores how, by accepting these conditions (which we seemingly have no choice about), we participate in our own exclusion from life and are left in a zone of “unlivability.” Five performers of the “younger generation,” by examining their sources of exhaustion, question whether we have the strength to resist through stillness, and offer the audience the possibility of collective stillness.
Production: Group “Let’s…”
Concept, dramaturgy, and movement politics: Marko Pejović
Choreography and performance: Ana Obradović, Anđela Žugić, Isidora Poledica, Miloš Janjić, Simonida Žarković
Choreography mentor: Isidora Stanišić
Costume design: Boris Čakširan
Circus acrobatics consultant: Danka Sekulović
Music selection: Paradigm – Memories (Brainquake – Linn Fringerg), AKMV-18 – Hamartia, Studiob Noir – Our Little Hearts Like Saturn, Parvus Decree – L’Autre Monde (Oneirscopic Mix), Polkavant – Magdalena, Fade to Gray – Visage