DisJoint on Tour

Which processes of perception are activated when we watch a choreography, and to what extent can we consciously overturn these processes in order to propose a new mode of thought?

In her work “DisJoint,” the young choreographer Anastasia Valsamaki triggers our thinking and reevaluates the way we watch dance. “DisJoint” is an on-stage experiment that ‘plays’ with entrenched mechanisms of the gaze and engagement, proposing unfamiliar physicalities and incongruous narratives instead.

In this choreography, three dancers explore an unfamiliar physicality: a means of expression not rooted in the consistency, harmony, flow or naturalism of the body’s movements. “DisJoint” takes a physical approach to the notion of disjointedness, to non-functional movement, so that both the material produced by each dancer, and the ways in which these materials are combined, can stand in opposition to values that are entrenched in dance movement, and even propose something different, something new.