[8:tension] Young Choreographers' Series

"Flatland1"

A flat man imagines life in three dimensional space to be heavenly. In " Flatland – Part I (Going up, not North)", a mixture of video essay and fairytale for adults, Portuguese Patrícia Portela tells the tragic-comic story of a figure who is searching for a way into the world of space. Off-stage a softly adulatory narrator's voice encompasses an over-dimensional, open book in which letters, sentences and pictures dance. Nothing disturbs the pleasant atmosphere of this successful cross between live performance and animation film – because the public is already sitting in a paradise of spaces...