Irma Omerzo: Mi-Nous
Croatia
choreography: Irma Ormezo
dancers: Aleksandra Janeva, Pravdan Devlahoviæ
lighting design: Begona Garcia Navas
stage design: Pierre-Jean Verbraeken
A choreographed documentary of a love affair, showing the various qualities, kinds and phases of love. Correspondence stands out as a particular theme in the form of letters and messages crossing physical distance and in the form of disconnected dancing and unheard words. Both the mood and structure of the piece clearly evoke isolation in its various shapes and sizes. The duet draws from real experience in relationship crises caused by unspoken rules and resulting in things remaining unspoken. It plays with the idea of a happy end, but also with the risk involved, like an out-of-control game of poker. Omerzo shows us the halfway mark of the disintegration of faith, but also the moments of renewal and connection we all know from correspondence. She compares the distance between two people in different situations, picturing for us the state of the relationship. At times the pair enter into their dreams, at others they take shelter in other emotional domains. As we all know, the road to harmony is a hard one.
Photo: archive.
Irma Omerzo - dancer and choreographer; in 1991 she graduated from the Centre Nationale de Danse Contemporaine d'Angers in France. In Paris, she first assisted in projects by choreographer Andy Degroat in company Red Not's, and then joined the DCA company under artistic direction of Philippe Decoufle in 1993. There she danced in Petite Piece Montée, Denise, Decodex, Cérémonie de Festival de Film a Cannes, Abracadabra, Triton 2ter, and Shazam. As assistant of the choreographer Philippe Decoufle she worked on Shazam and Cyrk 13. As choreographer she created the short pieces: Veza (quartet), Symphony of Fresh Fruits Falling in Cascades (quartet), and I Love Bean Soup (solo). Mi-Nous is her first full-length show. After the creation of Mi-Nous in 2001, she founded Compagnie MARMOT.
Irma Omerzo, Draškoviæeva 62, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia, irma.omerzo@zg.hinet.hr
