Description

No Need For Blue Jeans Here is situated in a limbo between life and death. A man, wearing nothing but hiking boots and a backpack, enters a strange garden full of desiccated flowers, withered by time, and encounters an oblivious Cerberus-like character part human - part plant, passively guarding the space. The two characters evolve side by side, fulfilling their own agenda. The man who has stumbled upon the event of his death, unknowingly conducts his own burial ceremony, while the guardian of the garden subtly shapes his environment and leads the man to his demise.
The work references how gardens have been used by the powers that be to demonstrate how they exercise control over their subjects. Symmetry and a conventional notion of beauty override possible ways of navigating the garden. Everywhere the man goes, he is limited in the space. The impermanence of life is represented by the flowers in decay, and the permanence of death by the rocks. The piece is available to interpretation on many levels from an absurd stroll in a garden to a tale of life and death.

Team

• Aliah Schwartz : choreographer and performer
• Guillaume Loslier-Pinard : choreographer and performer
• Dara Miah : light and set design

Festivals featured in

Tangente (2019), Festival ZH (2019), Kinetic Studios (2018), Art Matters (2017)