Since Plato, the term Khôra (Ancient Greek: “place, area, land, space”) has been an ephemeral one, thinkers from Aristotle to Derrida to Heidegger to Kristeva not so much nailing down a proper definition than circling it like an inscrutable object. With her group piece, Belgian choreographer Astrid Boons dares to enter this place that, at the same time, is a non-place: both a reflection of our increasingly technologised world, pushing bodies to the margin, and a rejoinder, a possible refuge. Five dancers, with nothing but their bodies and each other, keep resituating themselves in an eerily smooth wasteland, posing the equally simple as impossible question: “How do we reclaim our humanity?”
Concept and choreography: Astrid Boons
Co-creation and performance: Karolina Szymura, Spencer Dickhaus, Amy Josh, Matilde Tommasini and Lukas Karvelis
Music: Miguelángel Clerc Parada
Costume design: Bregje van Balen
Set and lighting design: Zaza Dupont
Lighting operator: Lisette van der Linden
Dramaturgy: Eva Martinez
Production: Korzo
Co-production: Hessisches Staatsballett in the frame of Tanzplattform Rhein Main (DE)
With the support of Opera Ballet Vlaanderen (BE) and The Norwegian National Opera & Ballet (NO)
Made possible by the Performing Arts Fund (NL) in the frame of the Fast Forward programme and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, Municipality of The Hague (NL)