Confessions – the Autopsy of a Performance is an investigation on the nature of presence on stage, the status of reality in this context and the dynamics of the construct; performer-audience- and the stage that keeps them apart.
What is presence on stage?
How does the manipulation of presence influence the perception of a performance?
Does construction feed falsification?
Looking at acting as a form of non-acting in order to arrive at a distance from the artificiality of performance, only to return to it again from a different perspective.
Looking for harmony between dead energy and live presence, stretching the tension between formalism and naturalism, environment and action.
(c) Georg Schreiber 
(c) Georg Schreiber
(Physical) Images and text lead the spectators into a world where lies are sometimes true and facts unimportant.
In the performance manipulation and speculation give birth to a sincere and curious approach to what live performance is and brings our attention to the absurdity of theater, its nature as a constructed lie, built to be believed in.
EXTRA INFO
Project year: 2003
CREDITS
Created and performed by: Nada Gambier
Light design: Oded Hubermann
Produced by: Choreographisches Zentrum NRW/PACT Zollverein in Essen, in the framework of DEPARTS, a network sponsored by: the European Commission ‘Culture Programme 2000’
Supported by: wpZimmer
PROJECT DATES
25/07/2007, Full Moon Dance Festival, Pyhajarvi (FI)
11/08/2006, Augusti Tantsu Festival, Tallinn (EE)
07/03/2006, Imagetanz Festival/Dietheater, Wien (AT)
08/03/2006, Imagetanz Festival/Dietheater, Wien (AT)
17/02/2006, De Brakke Grond, Something Raw, Amsterdam (NL)
18/02/2006, De Brakke Grond, Something Raw, Amsterdam (NL)
10/02/2006, Aerowaves Festival, London (UK)
03/11/2005, Polly Festival, Göteborg (SE)
28/10/2005, Moderne Dansteatern, Stockholm (SE)
21/05/2005, Rencontres Choréographiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis, Paris (FR)
22/05/2005, Rencontres Choréographiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis, Paris (FR)
24/03/2005, Repérages/Dans in Kortrijk, Kortrijk (BE)
10/03/2005, Beursschouwburg/Bougement Festival, Brussels (BE)
11/03/2005, Beursschouwburg/Bougement Festival, Brussels (BE)
06/10/2004, De Velinx, Tongeren (BE)
07/10/2004, Amperdans Festival, Antwerp (BE)
09/10/2004, Amperdans Festival, Antwerp (BE)
24/10/2004, Theater Fur Alle Festival, Bremen (DE)
12/08/2004, Tanzwerkstatt Europa Festival, München (DE)
24/08/2004, Mousonturm, Frankfurt (DE)
09/07/2004, Dampf Festival, Cologne (DE)
17/05/2004, Mousonturm, Frankfurt (DE)
18/05/2004, Mousonturm, Frankfurt (DE)
28/02/2004, Beursschouwburg, Brussels (BE)
01/10/2003, Choreographisches Zentrum NRW/PACT Zollverein, Essen (DE)