We compagnie is where Vilma is working together. It believes that the mouvement has the potential for talking about the world or building temporary ways of being otherwise. It thinks of making performances as a radical social proposition, a great camouflage for doing subversive, illicite things, such as not participating in some systems – economic, hierarchich, familial. Based on collective work ideas, We cie was created inside the National Theater of Strasbourg corridors, where Vilma Pitrinaitė was studying theater directing and Thomas Pondevie – dramaturgy. Together they iniciated WE compagnie in order to question the bodily and narrative logics inherent to a contemporary performance.
What the bodies paradoxically achieve in the course of the performance is a trance-like intensity of complex patterns that in themselves constitute an altered reality. … Continue reading…NICHOLAS MINNS ON “SOMAHOLIDAYS”