DEADLOCK
safe in the dark, framed by the pending walls, the dancer gives up her body and turns into a ghost
with no depth, no weight, no contours, she travels between the tangible and the presumed
as if dancing were an image to crave and fear, images that haunt us, and we them
the dancing I secretly love, silent unavoidable immediate
– Cristina Caprioli
space, film & choreography Cristina Caprioli
dance (live & on film) Louise Dahl
lighting design Thomas Zamolo
sound ’Variable Dimensions’ by Richard Chartier (2020), published by Touch Music/Fairwood Music UK Ltd
photo, cinematography & edit Thomas Zamolo
set-up & technique Thomas Zamolo, Albin Åkerman, Ali Mohammadi
production partners AGAB, Dansens Hus Stockholm
ccap team Anna Grip, Sigrid Sjöholm, Masha Taavoniku
thank you Delight Studios
premiered Nov 4 2023 in the Hall in Farsta, and performed at Biennale Danza 2024 within La Biennale di Venezia. In September 2023 a choreographic intervention from DEADLOCK was performed in the exhibition Be Mine at ccap, and in April 2024 another short version with the title DEADLOCK undone at Sundays on Broadway in New York. December 2024 DEADLOCK was again performed in the Hall in Farsta.
deadlock (on its way to a pending reverb)
when the dancing is dancing, it travels itself together with into
not to position itself rather for the sake of a fallout
images bodies and languages i turmoil, over several layers along plenty detours right now definitely here, there
the dance that truly is dancing it finely distributes itself with confidence makes itself into one that is many, unintentionally with elaborated insight single-mindedly heading for an unknown wall, walking with style ready to move itself together with and into disoriented extent
continuously gliding with deviating exceptions
a dancing that micromaniacally excludes and at the same time confirms a place(the bodies) whilst it continues to make itself ambiguous
always sometimes therefore indefinite
or there would be no movement
the place where dancing dances turns itself into a clear framing, a mono-image at best also monochrome, a place(image) that does not refer to the color
specific but to the polychrome equal where the bodies subdivide themselves
into and become part of, at the same time as they subdivide and further distribute the place(image)
all difference already there, ready to be noticed, ready to be allowed sight aiming a single view where the gaze can travel in all directions
the dance that is dancing with indetermined precision in the place that turns itself into a monochrome mono-image brings forth and immediately apart the permissive ambiguous and by doing so, unintentionally
the world is paid attention to
after several years of dancing in the form of invertebrate stranger, unruly bird cry, diffused fog, mild threads, airborne stain and ashes in the wind focus is now set onto the dance that moves towards and past by repeated one-way walking, figuratively speaking and allegorically dancing gives up its body and turns itself into a projected path
with no depth weight, or contours, dancing approaches the frame only to dissolve
dancing on a one way path, at uninterrupted pace, once again towards immediately passing, repeated appearance without arrival a ghostly dance, movement in the true sense of the word
the place disperses itself into an unfinished maze of deceptive patterns arching over and afar, uneven structure incapable of its own horizon
systematic arrangement in the service of a disarray
along the footpaths target out of sight only passages passing the specified trust and deception, dancing turns into choreography
you walk the deadlock, trust the curved enclosure
pale figures target you from a distance
intrusive, gently appealing, their hand outstretched, immediately of the frame a disrupting pattern propagates itself in between, graphs a turnover
you dance your way into the disarry, make yourself complicit
nothing special occurs, other than a (sensible) image
– cc 2021
