Impulses pierce the twentieth century. Dance movements reflect the ideas permeating society. Two oppositions stand out most prominently here: the avant-garde movement, in which the human body served as an inanimate mechanism, and the impulse became part of a collective score merging human and machine, and free movement, in which the impulse acquires human characteristics, becoming individual and unconscious.
The project was created as part of the «Expressive Machine» art lab during the «First Vanguard Factory» contemporary art festival in Ivanovo. The lab resulted in a group exhibition at the Tsvetayev House Museum.
Lab curators: Vladislav Efimov and Maria Bavykina.
The video is divided into three parts.
The first, an «avant-garde» piece, is dedicated to how the body and the human were viewed in this movement. The human here is perceived as a machine, a component of a large factory mechanism. The dancers perform rhythmic, geometric movements that evoke the work of an assembly line.
stills from the video
The main figures in this piece are puppets portraying factory workers. Although they are meant to represent people, they bear only a distant resemblance to them; their movements and articulation are cyclical and restricted.
The dolls are constructed from various «mechanical» materials—measuring instruments, old construction tools, and machine parts.
Creators — Yulia Lozhkina, Polina Mansurova
Sound Design — Sofya Ivanova
Cinematography — Alexandra Pleshkova
Performers:
Valeriya Baranova
Darya Zhabotinskaya
Ulyana Kokoulina
Alina Kryukova
Anastasia Kubareva
Anna Lushina
Polina Kozhina
Polina Nalyotova
Veronika Panyaeva
Alexandra Parmenova
Elizaveta Podmareva
Ksenia Safaeva
Victoria Sokolova
Anastasia Kharitonova
Anzhelika Bocharnikova
Darya Sharkova
