Party Bizarre

Project Description

Party Bizarre explores the multitude of ways we inhabit our mind/bodies in this world. It pulls on (y)our vulnerability and (y)our power, (y)our ecstasies and (y)our pains. The piece arises from what it means for us to create together, to question choreographic assumptions and the shared necessity to include all of ourselves in the dances we make. Party Bizarre takes a meta perspective in its exploration of what it means to produce a ‘show’ and to share that with a group of witnesses. The piece plays with theatrical devices such as party lights and projection, the virtuosity of the dancing body and genres of popular music in order to interrogate how spectacle acts on us. In Party Bizarre, we explore how we compartmentalize our emotions into physical sensations, how our bodies take stock and remember the experiences they have had on a cellular level.

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Company Profile

We, Elissa Hanson and Lexi Vajda, believe in a process that holds space for all of one’s needs and truths in order to reveal a bold and sensitive performance aesthetic; we believe in irreverent, risky, fierce and tender approaches to art making. Integrating intersectional practices around consciousness and embodiment has allowed us to be present, open and playful with the well of knowledge held by (our) dancing bodies. In our dances, the politics of care, notions of resilience and trauma, and psychological/ physical mechanisms we use to feel good take priority over the commodification of the dancing body. Through this, we aim to create performance situations where witnesses may also access their own spectrum of joys and sorrows. Our artistic mandate proposes educating ourselves in aesthetic theories and somatic practices which offer us transdisciplinary understandings of how (our) bodies might connect to each other in healthier, safer, and more intelligent ways.