Absent Bodies

Kato Mergan

Absent bodies is a movement installation in which three performers use mirrors to create a new reality that lies just beneath the everyday.

This layered performance explores profound themes such as collectivity and loneliness, beauty and perception. Three dancers find each other in a game with mirrors and enter into a dialogue with their environment: perspectives tilt and images shatter. Our view of everyday life is physically manipulated, turned around, magnified, cut up and recombined. In this way, a new shared reality unfolds in which fusion, boundaries, sensitivity and individualism are given a fresh interpretation.

Kato Mergan (1998) is a choreographer, dancer and teacher. She graduated from the FHK Dance Academy in Tilburg and creates performances under the name physical dialogues in which people, space and objects interact. Her debut Absent bodies was performed at Par Hasard, Kaapstad Festival and Festival Boulevard, among others, and can still be seen at Maanrock and Open Monumentendag Mechelen. She also teaches contemporary dance at the conservatory in Leuven and the academy in Hamme.

Credits:

Soundscape: Theo Carpentier

Performers: Patric Da Cunha, Saskia Neuen and Kato Mergan

Choreography & scenography: Kato Mergan

Organisation:Danspunt