Until the tongue speaks
On 22 November experimental dance performance “Until the tongue speaks” was held in CCA- CENTER OF CONTEMPORARY ART TBILISI
ABOUT PERFORMANCE
For centuries, a woman’s life has been like a vicious circle, where lifeless, routine often simply replace each other. For centuries, a woman has had a gender role specially assigned to her. A woman’s feelings, life, desires, success or failure are seen through the lenses that men first adapted to themselves, and then adapted to women and the whole society. Women’s stories are usually fabricated by men; Desires of women dictated by men; Women’s self-perception is bewitched by the feeling that they belong again and again to men; The female body is a site of power trading and its constant redistribution; Even a woman’s movement is framed by a man’s gaze. Nevertheless, the epicenter of the history of art is repeatedly women with detailed descriptions of their lives. The creative world has been looking through a magnifying glass at the routine existence of women for centuries, hoping to find hidden desires, passions, aspirations and dreams in it, in addition to the normalized order.
The visibility of women, the visibility of her history, remains an unsolvable problem even in the world of modern technologies. Women who once disappeared from public spaces today seem to return to spaces they never belonged to, however, in the background of the pressure of society that women constantly experience, the question remains unchanged for the history of art: what is really experienced by women, apart from the self-circumscribed order in their lives?
A woman’s conflict with a man’s world is always born in the background of discovering her own desires and aspirations, where a woman takes power over her own life. The passion for the life of submissiveness, for a woman to live her own life and feelings makes her constantly opposed to the ideas of the society. A high rate of femicide or an increased number of violence against women is directly related to a woman’s desire to live her own life and mind instead of being constantly subjugated. The performance once again observes the woman and her life, which came under the pressure of society, the routine life and constant fear seemed to eat away the soul of this woman. A woman who is trapped in space, in an enchanted circle, a child of petrified or frozen time, who continues to walk in pain despite all the difficulties. In a world where nothing changes for him, he constantly changes his form. He embodies the desire and need for change.
The visibility of women, the visibility of her history, remains an unsolvable problem even in the world of modern technologies. Women who once disappeared from public spaces today seem to return to spaces they never belonged to, however, in the background of the pressure of society that women constantly experience, the question remains unchanged for the history of art: what is really experienced by women, apart from the self-circumscribed order in their lives?
A woman’s conflict with a man’s world is always born in the background of discovering her own desires and aspirations, where a woman takes power over her own life. The passion for the life of submissiveness, for a woman to live her own life and feelings makes her constantly opposed to the ideas of the society. A high rate of femicide or an increased number of violence against women is directly related to a woman’s desire to live her own life and mind instead of being constantly subjugated. The performance once again observes the woman and her life, which came under the pressure of society, the routine life and constant fear seemed to eat away the soul of this woman. A woman who is trapped in space, in an enchanted circle, a child of petrified or frozen time, who continues to walk in pain despite all the difficulties. In a world where nothing changes for him, he constantly changes his form. He embodies the desire and need for change.
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A woman dances in the room, and with her help, the audience sees a person who is uncomfortable, tied up, periodically angry, unable to adapt to the role assigned to him, and does not know how to change it. Sometimes he is visited by a feeling of weakness, sometimes he is overcome by the desire of self-destruction. The woman keeps silence, the sound of household items is heard around her, which temporarily breaks the silence reigning around her. This woman seemed to be silenced by the pain, the desire to hide herself, the feeling of disappointment took away her voice and left only the ability to move and work. Only dance, as a desire to return to life, was chosen as a universal language expressing the passion of life.
At the end of the performance, a word is born from her lips for the first time, as a symbol of new life, reviving, waking up from long-term sleep. This first verbal act indicates a radical transformation of a woman. The spoken word is a symbol of a second birth, a second chance and a harmonious crossing with the world. It seems to re-birth the world in sound, word, vibration. Dance becomes an impulse for a woman to join her voice to the cosmic voice, to something much bigger and more important, to move from the fast rhythm of life to the magical and infinite, mystical world.
At the end of the performance, a word is born from her lips for the first time, as a symbol of new life, reviving, waking up from long-term sleep. This first verbal act indicates a radical transformation of a woman. The spoken word is a symbol of a second birth, a second chance and a harmonious crossing with the world. It seems to re-birth the world in sound, word, vibration. Dance becomes an impulse for a woman to join her voice to the cosmic voice, to something much bigger and more important, to move from the fast rhythm of life to the magical and infinite, mystical world.
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Credits:
Director and Screenwriter – Maka Kiladze
Dancer and Choreographer – Natalia Kukuladze
Musician and Composer – Sandro Mishelashvili
Photographer and Project Manager – Nia Jinelli
Costume – Lashao Gabunia Jesus Star
Designer – Giorgi Tavshavadze
Musician and Composer – Sandro Mishelashvili
Photographer and Project Manager – Nia Jinelli
Costume – Lashao Gabunia Jesus Star
Designer – Giorgi Tavshavadze