ILLA (English Version)

ILLA
It is an interdisciplinary performance which integrates dance, poetry, photography, animations and images in real time.

“ILLA” means “that” and is a Latin pronoun to indicate the feminine being.

It is a proposal coming from a personal mythology, posing a glance on the invisible reality of the essential processes – nature and culture.

Through the figures of femininity and tree, this performance suggests poetic processes including life cycles :
death/life and contraction/pause/expansion.

It is a circular trajectory of the flow between the opposites – sky and ground – light and darkness – surface and depth.

The dance is an occupation of spaces.

The exposed process is an accumulation of positions, states, actions.

In a laic ceremonial, the female figure interacts with the elements of the tree: their leaves, the natural product; sheets of paper, a cultural product.

The floating suspension of leaves which absorb the light does not escape from the fall that is given slowly by the attraction of the ground.

The narrative here is a serie of drawings in space; the dance is an actantial narrative. The resultant poetry is the superposition of the fragments of those narratives.

creation, direction and dance-performance: aychele szot
live-images: daniel sêda
photographs: luiz camara
scenario and ornaments: rodrigo schoenherr and aychele szot

The performance ILLA was proposed initially by Aychele Szot as a ceremonial of celebration of the feminine energy which creates and destroys the worlds.
This project was born from the convergence of proposals between the artists Aychele Szot and Daniel Seda. Starting from the invitation of Aychele, Daniel made the creation and the projection of the images for the dance-poetic that was already designed. The proximity of the poetic proposals of the two artists allowed a firm and fluid collaboration. Less than one month of work allowed the production and the presentation of ILLA at GAG – Group of Total Art, on August 2, 2007.