MAke>shift: a noise in my eye by Eleonora Siarava

Choreographer Eleonora Siarava writes about her piece a noise in my eye, which will be presented at MAke>shift on Friday 4th June...

“a noise in my eye” is a dark journey to the world of perception, a mystic place where Mathematics meet Gothic and Impressionism, time freezes and vision pulses in-between rational and irrational, conscious and unconscious. It is a group work for a “chorus” of 6 dancers which explore unfamiliar ways of embodiment in a shadowy context of restriction, transition and escape. However, the piece is a research on the application of Neuroaesthetics in dance and thus it could be characterized as “meaningless” as it basically experiments with its impact on senses, perceptual mechanisms, physical sensations and cognitive functions both of performers and audience.

Repetitive cognitive and physical patterns, constructed in a mathematical way as well as the chaos and the same time the harmony which characterize the world of Geometry and Physics create a tricky visual endless, a ground for infinite potentials to be unfolded, multiplied, diversified.

My intention as a choreographer was to challenge the way that perception and attention function by using the cognitive rest and the addiction evoked by a hypnotizing repetition in combination with the alert and the “midi-complex” unpredictability that they can cause moving patterns characterized by moderated complexity.

The construction of the moving material is inspired by the periodical circulation of the body fluids and especially the blood, as allowing preservation and recycling of body’s moving energy. The dancers balance between trapping and recycling this energy and being trapped by that.

The piece holds a close relationship with musicality and rhythmical patterns in an attempt to enhance the focus on the perceptual and moving patterns. The basic music theme is from Simeon Ten Holt’s “Canto Ostinato” which can support a hypnotic movement precise and closely linked to the music so as to create a sound endless, an eternal movement that follows a sound infinity.