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CCyou is a lecture performance looking at dance as a interspecies crossroad. Inspired by the fearless dance of the peacock spider, ready to be eaten up by its beloved, spectating other, the work embarks on a chaotic journey synthesising neuroscience, quantum entanglement, the intrinsic and erotic desire of being eaten alive and the urgency and survival mechanism of dancing in the face of societal collapse. Creating a half eroding, half emergent force field where information clash, collapse and attempt to make sense, CCyou is an emotional and inquisitive performance that juggles in between movement, voice, lecturing and overthinking, all the while hunting for a bodily state that could perhaps embrace it all.
"Maybe we knew we would never come out of this “healthy”, or healed. Maybe we used it like some sort of cure, an intersection of openings and bendings, re arrangements of a world beyond sick and healthy. This thing I do, the thing I call dance, can somehow do the reprogramming. At least sometimes. Not a gesture to “bring the change” but a much more subtle and meta-substantial gesture needed for me, to make sense of that what I otherwise cannot bare to look at, bare to sit with, bare to stand upright facing, carry with me along, mute and merciless, against the ticking time framing my live. Back to the orang utan that can heal itself.. Researchers also say we have been given our emotions from our animal ancestors. Our emotions were there before we existed, and we are a consequence of them. How do you make sense of that you are coming from feeling?-This next scene is called European failure "
CREDITS
PERFORMANCE + DEVELOPMENT Toni Steffens
COSTUME + TEXT Toni Steffens
SOUND SOURCES zzomkaraoke.uk, How they got game projecy, Stanford University/theinternetarchive, Marc Ayres-Freude, Joe Cooker- with a little help from my friend, DJ Call me- Say goodbye
DOCUMENTATION Olivia D'Cruz
Sandberg Institute, 4Bid Gallery, Spring Wounds/Kunstkapel Amsterdam
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