I kill-ill You / 2015
In her latest work I kill-ill You, Düsseldorf choreographer Karen Boesser examines
displacement and self-delusion as a social phenomena. During this performance, Karen
propels performers and spectators on a tour of illusion and manipulation, in which she
confronts them with various explanatory models and patterns of perception. The
audience is challenged to use all their senses to experience the constructs designed by
the human psyche to grasp the world around them and how boundaries blur between
factual action and mystifications as well as blurring the boundaries between performers
and audience.
I kill-ill You reflects the inner processes that are often elusive even for those who are
affected. The audience comes in contact with their different perceptions and patterns of
explanation and rationalization.
Team:
Artistic Direction / Choreographie / Performance: Karen Boesser
Dance / Performance: Karen Boesser, Kyungwoo Kwon, Elisa Osborne (Guest Artist)
Sound Collage: Ansgar Tappert
Stagedesign and Video editing: Dirk Dietrich Hennig
Dramaturgy: Lise Brenner
Production Assistance: Kathrin Spaniol
Video Documentation: Beatrix Szörenyi
Funded by:
- Cultural Department of the City of Düsseldorf
- Ministry for Family, Children, Youth, Culture and Sports NRW
- Foundation van Meeteren
Press review:
Renée Wieder / Rheinische Post
"A man and a woman dancing a duet across the room, but they seem to look each other
in vain. In slow motion emphasize Bösser Karen and her partner Kyung-woo Kwon past
each other or stare into space, the body devoured as if by chance. In her performance "I
kill-ill You" FFT explores the Düsseldorf choreographer Bösser emotional short-circuits
between people - the unbridgeable difference between perception and self-perception.
A fluent well done / throughly choreographted, abstract sequence of actual states,
supported by an atmospheric soundscape of everyday noises.Only inches away from
the audience turn both dancers their inside out."
Photos: Copyright by Dirk Dietrich Hennig / 2015
