What can a body do? This is the unanswered and self-evident question that Anastasia Valsamaki’s solo brings to the stage. Through this research, Valsamaki not only explores the body’s expressive abilities, but the narrative provokes the dance language as well. Following the structure of the monologue, this work returns to the pre-linguistic, eloquent silence of the body speaking through movement. A silence made of gestures, pauses, malleable forms and unfamiliar body states attracts our gaze. Body monologue embraces the fluidity of meanings the body conveys through dance.
Body Monologue at Bratislava in Movement festival
Bratislava, Slovakia Book nowAnastasia Valsamaki presents ‘Body Monologue’ at Bratislava in Movement on 9 October.