Perel - Natural Acts

In the organizer's words:

What happens when grief goes from a temporary feeling to a permanent state? In "Natural Acts", queer, disabled, interdisciplinary artist Perel and Rita Mazza, freelance artist and sign language choreographer, deal with non-binary and non-linear forms of mourning and search for strategies to make absence and loss a sensual experience. Using visual and narrative elements, the effects of violence are negotiated across generations and the audience is emotionally and intellectually drawn into this topic. In a space that appears to have been turned upside down and seems to be turning in on itself, the events on stage are revealed and concealed in equal measure by voluminous fabric constructions. Here, the two artists create a choreography that oscillates between movement and gesture, gesture and dance, text and language. Alternative seating landscapes create the conditions for a mutual interplay of closeness and distance, challenge and sympathy between the audience and the performers. The performance shows how trauma and loss influence the brain and consequently our everyday actions by keeping the "never past" past alive. "Natural Acts" questions the prevailing culture of remembrance by using physical experiences and offering the opportunity to confront one's own and society's dark sides. This content has been machine translated.