IOANA MONA POPOVICI
Work in Regress
32:00 min

About the performance:

Departing from George Orwell’s Animals Farm, I began to think about a project focused on the concept of authority, as a system built on the relationship between the master and a property - two roles sharing a mutual dependence. The mutual dependence I am referring to here, is the interchangeability these roles are part of: a ruler gets born out of a servant, the sense of being the master is to generate, nurture and to further propagate power. During my residence at Eira33 in Lisbon, I created a story about an authority unable to rule over anything at all, as it is placed on a huge, vast, empty space. I was interested in searching which could be the actions of such a master and what kind of rituals he would create when missing the partner that activates his power. How would such a master react when meeting, one day, a very dumb sheep, for example?

About the author:

Ioana Mona Popovici studied at the University of Dramatic and Cinema Arts, in Bucharest. From 2000-2004 she was a member of the international Charles Linehan Company (UK). During the past years, she created “Buy a Soup Get One for Free”, “Breath, Shadow, Nothing”, “Requiem for a Dog”, “Remote Edens”. She is the winner of 2007 Sazka Award “Discovery in Dance” for her performance “Portrait”. For three of her performances, she was nominated for an award “Young Choreographer to Watch” in the annual critics’ survey of the German BalletTanz magazine. Her latest works were performed in Europe and the United States.