THE WORDS BETWEEN US // performance by Danae Theodoridou
An empty, silent space, a table, two chairs, a paper, a timer. Two people are sitting opposite each other, exchanging written words for ten minutes. The Words Between Us is a one-on-one performance that deals with written language as an event by repeatedly creating collaborative written documents within a duration of two hours. The participants communicate without speaking, creating a performance space that is less about what is said and more about what is written between them. Two people are looking at each other but they are restricted to the use of written language -both theirs and borrowed- to communicate, as if this were a live type of internet chatting.
Creating dialogues that stand between the real and the fictional, departing from phrases of fictional and other kinds of texts, the two participants get involved in the intimacy they generate. How does this alter their way of thinking? How does it alter their words? How does it affect their relationship?
Concept, creation, performance: Danae Theodoridou
Duration: 2 hours
Danae Theodoridou is a performance maker and researched based in Brussels. She completed her practice-led PhD on dramaturgy at Roehampton University (London) and works as an Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance in the University of Groningen (NL). She teaches also in various university departments and art conservatoires (PARTS, Dasarts, ArtEZ a.o.), publishes internationally and presents her artistic and research work in different contexts in Europe. She is a co-creator of the three-year research project Dramaturgy at Work.
More information: www.danaetheodoridou.com
