OFF EUROPA: DEVOURER

‘I am a star, I shine like a supernova...or have I become a black hole?’

‘DEVOURER - the Devourer - exists only to have. In his determined effort to make everything his own, he absorbs light, breathes in space and materialises time. A body of greed, caught red-handed.’
from the materials for the performance

‘In the almost hour-long production, Alica Minar develops a clownish, tragic character whose initially naïve joy in finding and collecting simple, black balls increasingly turns into unbridled greed. At some point, she seems to be willing to use any means to satisfy it. Every ingestion, every swallow reveals more and more that it is something very human that we are watching being gobbled up. DEVOURER's story is highly complex in its simplicity, which makes it engaging and captivating. Anyone who gets involved cannot ignore the mirror in front of their face. In the end, it's hard to tell who is devouring whom and who is caught up in whose maelstrom.’
Maren Barnikow

Alica Minar, Slovakian choreographer, dancer and curator, lives in Berlin and Prague. In recent years, her work has focussed on the relationship between bodies and objects based on the principles of dance and clowning. Alica Minar is part of the programme team of the venue Studio ALTA in Prague and co-curator of the symposium project DANCETOPIA.

In English with German surtitles.

Duration: approx. 55 minutes.

Audience discussion with Alica Minar in German after the performance.

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