Author and performer: Marina Cherry
Lighting design: Thibault Condy
Artistic advice: Brandon Lagaert, Sara Angelucci, Pablo Molina, Carlo Massari
Sound Design: Noée Voisard, Marina Cherry
Selected Composition: Book Kennison
Discipline: contortionism
Duration: 60 minutes
Age: 14+
Price: Free admission
An anonymous space. An unusual body. A desultory corruption seeking reprieve. A pursuit of one’s fantasies, fears, and neuroses. Without a need for resolution or justification, AVoid is an astringent potentiality of the “in-between”: neither here nor there. The project is an attempt to touch on realities that belong to the indiscernible, the ineffable, those that are a reminder of the dissipation of certainties.
A complex tension between internal and external.
A singular style of movement capturing a body as a container of plenitudes.
Recollections—vivid yet anaesthetised—collide, merge, transform.
Infinite questions. Less and less convictions.
AVoid holds a venomous reminder of a senselessness and fragility upon which our present reality lies.
This project is born from Marina’s fascination with solitude, contradictions, alienation and the impact of rapidly developing society in the face of digitalisation. The common point being the concept hikikomori—the withdrawal into seclusion, a particular condition in Japanese society where people avoid social contact to an extreme level. Shutting oneself in.
The foreign.
The stranger.
The grotesque unknown.
The performance is realized as part of the circusnext platform, financed by the Creative Europe program.
