A Performance Project

„The minimum is the result of the omission of the inessentials“
John Pawson

A sound track and a dance sequence based on the 2:3 polyrhythm – can such a simple performance receipt make an audience happy? Where is pleasure in minimalist expression? And how can we get spectators to actively search for their own pleasure within the performance setting that we offer?

We’re exploring the means of rhythm, repetition and synchronicity opposed to melody and linear development. Through this we look for visceral experiences within abstract connections between music and bodies.

Listen through your eyes, watch though your ears.

Project description

Pure Pleasure Seekers is a performance project that aims to find out what gives our audience pleasure. Through the interplay of music, dance and an aesthetic that is rooted in minimalism we create a contra-concept to contemporary entertainment culture. Within this set-up we are asking: How do you activate an audience member to to be part of a research process while it’s happening and to be engaged, present and searching instead of passively consuming?

We want to offer entertainment and pleasure – but without compromising our performance style. Will we manage to offer a different kind of entertainment that causes pleasure?

Will it be possible to produce an actual physical state in the spectator that sets off feelings of pleasure and happiness? Are we able to make an audience happy? Or can an audience be enabled to make themselves happy and take responsibility for their individual pleasure within the context that we offer?

Research Phase 1: December 2011 @Theater Tuchlaube Aarau, Switzerland

Co-Production: Autumn 2012/Spring 2013