maria teresa tanzarella
passport (2015)
voice: Joshua Korn
with the support of Raw Matters (Vienna, Austria), Tragantdansa (Barcelona, Spain) and Tanzhotel (Vienna, Austria)
A solo that could stand as a passport of mine. A solo with which I can say: this is me right now. When I start thinking about my biography I get in touch with my emotional body. It is the body how I feel it (not how it objectively is).
It’s about the ways that the place we are in affects our feelings.
The most complete biography is made up of irregular fragments and faded remnants, one’s own biography, too. We believe that we can tell our lives in a precise and reasoned way, and when we start we realise that they are full of dark areas, of unexplained episodes (and maybe unexplainable), of unmade choices, of missed opportunities, of postponed things, of rejected offers.
I am the killer, the victim and in mourning at the funeral at the same time. I had to kill this more obscure part of myself, this thing that confuses me and that I can not dominate, in order to find a place and a dignity for it.
What has been, is made also of what hasn’t been; what hasn’t been, can still be.
It goes even further. The female protagonist bears a real burden in Maria Teresa Tanzarella's one-woman-improvisation with the title "of dark areas, unexplained episodes, unmade choices, missed opportunities". She emerges from the impenetrable gloom, dressed in existentialist black and decorated with heavenly blue eyebrows.
In contrast to Braunesbergers light style, imitating levity, Tanzarella, who interprets her own work, shows movements of weight.
The audience witnesses a consistently maintained dance. The dancer seems to float dreamlike through lascivious music. But she is not intoxicated nor relaxed, rather wide awake in her nuanced movements. Tanzarella [...] increases the tension by meshing slower and faster sequences against each other. Through this act she becomes the sad Stand-Up figure who, without cracking a joke, shows a memorable performance of the missed opportunity.
(Helmut Ploebst, DER STANDARD, about the work in progress showing "of dark areas, unexplained episodes, unmade choices, dark opportunities", as part of the creation process)
Maria Teresa Tanzarella's solo „Passport“ begins like a scene from a Fellini movie. (Edith Wolf Perez, tanz.at)