There is this moment of awareness that we all feel at certain times – an awareness just before waking up, just before falling madly in love, just before a revolution enters the horizon. That moment is at the core of Vardarou’s performance piece, The Moment She Hovers Over the Ocean. 

Comprised of several mini choreographies and developed in close collaboration with the comic artist Marta Cartu, the piece takes as a departure point a moment of awareness that a fictional character, Lenina, senses in Huxley’s dystopian novel, Brave New World. Lenina’s helicopter hovers over the dark ocean the moment she intuits something uncomfortable; her social conditioning is being challenged, and so she begins to question reality. 

Georgia Vardarou takes the exploration of this moment of awareness further. Taking inspiration from Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann’s book, The Social Construction of Reality, she aims to question not only our general sense of reality but also the established approaches to choreography. Through her choreographies in The Moment She Hovers Over the Ocean, there is at hand a potential to expand our moments of awareness and to deconstruct our dystopian, well-established, and oftentimes fictitious everyday realities. Even if only for a moment.

#from love #towards revolution #a single breath #a single moment is enough #dystopia is not a necessity

concept, choreography, creation, interpretation: Georgia Vardarou *  creation and interpretation: Blanca Tolsá * sound and music design: Rodrigo Rammsy * contemporary comic and scenery: Marta Cartú * lights design: Joan Lavandeira  *photos: Natalia Benosilo * thanks: Salva Sanchis, Pau Pericas * production: kunst/werk (BE) & Ariadna Miquel (ES) * coproduction: Mercat de les Flors * residences: La Caldera Les Corts, La Poderosa IN_PRESCINDIBLES, Centre Cívic Barceloneta, Fabra i Coats * with the support of: ICUB_Ajuntament Barcelona * this projected is the recipient of the BECA CREA BARCELONA 2024 grant

©Tristan Perez-Martin