Entrophy (6PM) - LIVE & STREAM

If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution presents:

Three collaborative performances on chance, shared in/capacities and desire by Constantina Zavitsanos with Angelo Custódio and Pedro Matias, S an D. Henry-Smith, and Geo Wyex*

Entrophy is a programme of three performances catalysed by conceptual artist and activist Constantina Zavitsanos and realized in collaboration with musicians, performers, and visual artists Angelo Custódio and Pedro Matias, San D. Henry-Smith and Geo Wyex.

Each performance responds to the same score initiated by Zavitsanos and developed together with the performers through a twist on the popular deductive reasoning game Twenty Questions. With Zavitsanos in the role of the guesser, the artists have been asked to think of ‘absolutely nothing’ before answering a set of twenty yes/no questions on the performance they were going to stage. Though based on absolutely nothing, the improvisational nature of their answers has determined the score for each performance, unsettling rigid understandings of production and reproduction, autonomy and dependency, and interpretation and creation.

Following this experimental process of co-creation, the resulting performance(s) do not belong to anyone. They exist in a space of collaboration and not-knowing, unfolding through chance, improvisation, shared in/capacities and desire. Continuing Zavitsanos’s research into what constitutes matter and different thresholds of perception, the performance(s) are inhabited by sound, infrasound and infrared light. As per the artists’ answers, all have air and water, some have fire and only one has earth. Repeated twice on the same day, the performance(s) interpret the score at different tempos, speed and signatures. With time flowing in multiple directions, the event is accessible through different layers of descriptions, interpretations and captions.

Entrophy is commissioned and produced by If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution as part of Edition IX–Bodies and Technologies (2022-2023). If I Can’t Dance is financially supported by the Mondriaan Fund, AFK, Ammodo and Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds.

ACCESSIBILTY INFORMATION:
– Splendor is wheelchair accessible and has an accessible toilet downstairs by elevator
–The on-site performance(s) are seated. There will be priority seats for wheelchair users as well as for deaf and hard of hearing audiences. If you come a bit earlier, our hosts will help you find a spot
–The whole programme is live-streamed on Zoom and can be followed online
– The performance(s) employ sound, infrasound (vibrations), and, when language occurs, are spoken in English
– This hybrid programme employs sign language interpretation (NGT on-site and ASL online), CART (Dutch and English on-site, English online) and artistic audio description (English, both on-site and online);
– Masking during the on-site performance(s) is welcome and highly encouraged; masks are available at the entrance;
– Splendor has a café where you can hang out before and after the event

Please contact office@ificantdance.org with any additional questions regarding accessibility for this event.

CREDITS:
Concept: Constantina Zavitsanos
Initiator of the score: Constantina Zavitsanos
Performers and co-creators of the score: Angelo Custódio and Pedro Matias, San D. Henry-Smith and Geo Wyex
Curator and production manager: Sara Giannini
Stage manager: Annick Kleizen
Production assistance: Sancha Meca Castro
Set design: Constantina Zavitsanos
AV: Leroy Chaar
Light design: Marion Tränkle
In-house technician and floor manager: Thomas Myrmel
Live-stream production: Barry Jonas and Zsolt Szederkényi
NGT interpreters and Dutch CART: Faye Schippers and Clarissa van den Elzen
ASL interpreters: tbc
English CART: Veerle Haverhals
Audio description on-site and online: Constantina Zavitsanos
Front of house team: Naomi Collier Broms and Sancha Meca Castro
Accessibility advisors: Staci Bu Shea and Annick Kleizen
Zoom production advisors: Patrick Mahaney and Lauren Parrish
Accessibility financial support: I Wanna Be With You Everywhere

We would like to thank I Wanna Be With You Everywhere for their generous contribution in making the event more widely accessible. We are also very grateful to Eliane Baudet, Staci Bu Shea, Marja de Kinderen, Annick Kleizen, Patrick Mahaney, Lauren Parrish and Simon(e) van Saarlos for sharing their expertise and advising us in different phases of the project. Finally, a warm thank you to the Splendor collective, and in particular to Nora Fischer, for hosting the programme.

BIOGRAPHIES:
MORE INFORMATION ON THE ARTISTS
Click here.

TICKETS FOR SPLENDOR:
Regular: 16,50€
Students: 10€

ONLINE
Via Zoom, free with registration
Link to register via this link.

PHOTO
Constantina Zavitsanos
TBA, 2023
digital photograph made in a two-mirror Schlieren system with knife edge
dimensions variable

ID:
Against a black background, an image of otherwise invisible entropic air currents plume along the shadowed ground of a round telescope mirror. In the foreground, two fingers curl over a lit candle that stands in front of the mirror.