BODY CONFESSIONS
Concept, choreography, music, light design & performed by Aleksander Zain
Premiered May 17th, 2021
CZKD, Belgrade
Duration: 45’
Commissioned and supported by the Council of Europe office in Belgrade
IDAHOT 2021
Technical production: CZKD, KC Magacin, Aleks Zain
Body Confessions is an intimate confession of an artist’s relation to his own body, as well as other things in life that are touched or influenced in any way by that relation.
Through three parts of the piece, we can see the contrast of body relation that has been indicated to us through society, and relation to one’s own body that is personal and self-knowing. Creating the quality of contrasted relations in the first two parts of the show (shame-strength, fault-acceptance, confusion-understanding, chaotic-calm, personal-public, etc.), I want to show how society treats the body (and not just a trans* body like mine), how the body is influenced, and how it can cope with it, pinpointing the fact our body is stronger than we believe it to be.
The piece ends with the artist’s body becoming the canvas for his intimate confession, explaining ’the road he had to travel ‘, being a trans man who is a dancer and an artist, and what that meant for his relation to his own physical body.
I believe that the human body is much stronger than we believe it to be.
I believe that every border body faces is movable.
Move it a bit by bit, every day, as much/if you can.
Today, as in recent times, I’m just interested in taking the body as such as my subject.
Body as a tool.
Body as pain.
Body as strength.
Body as the only natural personal property that I believe we have, and that none can take from me.
Body as mine.
Body, as I strongly believe that someone must feel with their body the same as I do.
If you’re interested in bringing the piece to your theater or a festival, please write to spykee.vind@gmail.com for a tech rider, light plot, and further information.