What are we looking at, how do we perceive the qualities of a man, a woman, the mixt and inbetween? 

 

“What is private is private. What if I don’t identify myself only of being gender? I go for HUMANS: No matter what shape a human takes, first and foremost this is the final name of the game, to be HUMAN. Me, if I could choose, I would not be gender at all. I would like to be perceived as SPIRITED. I refuse to be categorised male or female, I think I am both. AND more. Moving all the time. Hard to define. Never to be quite clear. Restlessly shifting. Don’t hold me down. I am nobody`s business – right?”

Karen Foss, a Norwegian based dance-artist is wanting for people being left in peace and given respect for their personal preferences and inclinations. (Exempt use of violence.) The equalized equilibrium could be free of gender and full of humanity..?

 

The dance work she is interested in – is the flow of human bodies moving – unsexed, ungendered – just the wonders of the human. Being human. 

A lucid fluidity found in dance and its choreographic shapes play a large part in the artistic focus. Like Mind, like Body and with Fire of the Heart.  

 

CREATIVE TEAM:  

Concept: Karen Foss

Performed by: Martina Hajdyla Lacová, Daniel Raček

Music: Jørgen Knudsen

Song Manshape/2019: Lærke Grøndved, Leon Muraglia

Light design: Sigve Sælensminde, Katarína Ďuricová 

Production: kf Quiet Works, ME-SA / Jiří Hajdyla

Public Funding: Norwegian Foreign Ministry, Foundation for Performing Artists, Ministry of Culture Czech Republic

 

Duration: 55 min

Premiere: 13. 4. 2019, A4 – priestor súčasnej kultúry, Bratislava, SK

MAN SHAPE REVISED trailer

 

FOTOGRAFIE: Vojtěch Brtnický