Битеф

THERE IS NO EXCEPTION...

BITEF Theatre

THERE IS NO EXCEPTION TO THE RULE BECAUSE I AM NEVER WHAT I HAVE

Concept and choreography;

Isabelle Schad and Dalija Aći

Performance:

Dalija Aćin

Coaching and editing:

Isabelle Schad

Light design/Technical realisation;

Bruno Pocheron

Soundtrack;

Extracts from conversations between Dalija Aćin and Isabelle Schad

Serge Gainsbourg / Elysian Field "Les Amours Perdues"

Music:

Wassili Zygouris

Administration:

Production:

Cie Isabelle Schad / Good Work Productions in co-production with NPN (Nationales Performance Netz) Munich, Bitef Theater Belgrade, Tanzhaus NRW Düsseldorf With the support of: TanzWerkstatt Berlin, Colina 2005 in Tanzhaus NRW Düsseldorf Thanx to: Konstantin Faust-Oisowsky, the technical crew of Bitef Theate

This piece is born from a dialogue between the choreographers Dalija Aćin and Isabelle Schad from Berlin. In a series of recorded conversations they have been discussing the topics of the representations of the body, different notion of identity, the versatility of the parameters of beauty, the interplays between presence and absence, the expectations of the spectator. Dealing with the notion of self-representation, THERE IS NO EXCEPTION TO THE RULE BECAUSE I AM NEVER WHAT I HAVE seeks for the fluidity of the performers presence. It reflects on the frame of the theatre stage as a place of expectations and desire, and aims to question habits in perceiving both this presence and that frame. Dalija: The challenge of being able to perceive and experiencing my body in another way, by trusting into the process and the tools proposed by Isabelle, made me become more intimate with my body and have erased boundaries of one body. Isabelle; To follow my work on the body understood as an anatomic experience through and with another body than my own - from myself to Dalija, from the inside to outside, transmitting and experiencing anew through somebody else. The excitement of bringing different ideas into an edited form that plays on the imagination of the observer. "The skin is deceptive ...in life one only has one's skin... there is an error in human relations because one never is what one has... I have an angel's skin but I am a jackal... a crocodile's skin but I am a puppy, a black skin but I am white, a woman's skin but I am a man; I never have the skin of what I am. There is no exception to the rule because I am never what I have." {Dangerous Connections by Bojana Kunst) For further informations: www.isabelle-schad.net www.dalijaacin.raketa.org