Wrapping / Identity
Performative work-in-progress
The independent performative project "Wrapping / Identity” is a collaboration among 3 artists: Charlotte Puebla (dancer/choreographer), Ilia Seletskii (sound artist) and Aleksandra Pershay (stage and costume designer).
The performance depicts a young woman whose unique authenticity doesn't fit the role society has prepared for her, symbolized by the oversized male coat. She begins a dialogue and explores this imposed identity. As she interacts with the coat, we hear the soundscape it creates and see how she transforms the coat into various shapes. This transformation blurs the boundaries between the performer and the garment, creating a surreal and absurd explorative world.
Will the character try to adapt these masks to herself, or will the masks adapt first, changing her identity? It is a dialogue between entities. Using a language that combines dance, mime, and physical theater, the two entities will unfold, play, and perhaps fragment.
This performance features an unconventional artifact: a paper coat. More than just a theater costume, this coat is an art object that deeply connects with the ideas of fashion deconstructivism through its use of unconventional materials, its conceptual nature, and its challenge to traditional norms and expectations.
After a first research in April 2024, at Korzo Theater in The Hague, we presented the first raw outcome: a 20 min performance.
