Inspired by ‘Tarantula’, a novel by Thierry Jonquet, the dance piece Me, My non-Self and I delves into what might happen if, out of revenge, you deprive someone of freedom and make them the object of your cruel thoughts. By doing so, can you make them yours and force them to do whatever you want? Or would you become dependent on who you thought to have tamed?
On a sombre stage, we see a Woman manipulating a Man’s body, trying to tame him, to make him obey. She keeps the Man in a small closed room against his will. The Man is almost motionless. We can’t see all of him. We see the Man’s body parts projected on the Woman’s body. Constantly unfolding incompleteness, fragmentation and division, the piece’s atmosphere grows into a psychological thriller.
‘Me, My non-Self and I’ was selected at the Aerowaves, presented at Springback Festival in Greece and Staatstheater Wiesbaden’s International May Festival in 2022.
- Idea and concept and choreography: Rima Pipoyan
- Performers: Vladislav Bondar (Gor Sargsyan), Rima Pipoyan
- Music: Alva Noto – “Prototype 5”, “Prototype 10”, “Future”, ”Transrapid”, “Modul 4”Levon Minassian- “Siretsi Yares taran” (Arm. «Սիրեցի յարս տարան», Eng. “They have taken theOne I Love”)
- Text in the performance: Alan Watts – “The mind as a space outside the body”
- Video Projection Director: Mary Grigoryan
- Duration: 30 min
Rima Pipoyan 