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"This choreography with 9 woman shows in a very brilliant , let’s say "tender-troubling" way, the scores of gaze-regimes. As a reflection on how we constitute bodies merely by perceiving them in a certain manner, this work generates floating bodies, which can no longer be fixed to one single identity. The main score consists in repetition and a simple formation of bodies, accessoires, costumes, motion and touch. But while reproducing scenes of intimacy, scenes of touch, scenes of love, and letting them last, the (voyeurist) audience assists another spectacle, which defigures the physical borderlines we used to see." (Petra Sabisch) Eszter Salamon finished her studies in classical dance at the National Dance Academy of Budapest, before going to France, where she started a collaboration with Sidonie Rochon. From 1993 to 2000 she worked with Mathilde Monnier at the CCN Montpellier (Centre chorégraphique national de Montpellier Languedoc-Rousillon). There originated the duet "Où sont les femmes" with Brenda Edwards as a part of "Potlatch Dérives" (Festival Montpellier Danse 2000). She was also involved in the creation of François Verret’s "Bartleby". In 2001 she created the Solo "What a Body You Have", "Honey", and together with Xavier Le Roy "Giszelle" for "Le Vif du Sujet" of the Festival d’Avignon. In october 2002 she presented "Répétition publique d’un travail en cours" (work in progress) at the CCN Montpellier for "Hors Série" in collaboration with Herman Diephuis and Simone Verde. For the Comédie of Clermont-Ferrand she created in 2002 "Woman Inc." with 18 women between 7 and 74 years old. Since 2004 Eszter Salamon is artist-in-residence at the Podewil, TanzWerkstatt Berlin. Premiere Concept: Eszter Salamon, with: Susanne Berggren, Lucia Glass, Vera Knolle, Antonija Livingstone, Arantxa Martinez, O.Candy, Lola Rubio, Isabelle Schad, Laurie Young, Costumes: Antonia Baehr, Technical management: Bruno Pocheron, Organisation: Alexandra Wellensiek A Coproduction with La Bâtie Festival de Genève, Les Spectacles Vivants- Centre Pompidou (Paris), Kaaitheater (Brüssel), Podewil and TanzWerkstatt Berlin, With the support of: Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin and Le Kwatt, Thanks to: Tanzfabrik and Tal Photo: Katrin Schoof :: program