ONON, A choreographic labyrinth
Like the systems that surround us, the people who operate them are always in action. ON ON instead of OFF. In a choreography, human and non-human elements combine to form a multi-rhythmic machine. Mobile walls form a labyrinth. Following their own rhythm, the elements move across the stage as if drawn by magic. The performers follow the mechanical choreography of this inorganic body - but not without testing their limits and possibilities of resistance. Can the system be subverted from within?
In recent years, Clément Layes has been working with rhythm as a fundamental element for the operation of theater and dance. In the group performance The Eternal Return (2017), rhythm was used to explore the liminal spaces that are produced by our daily actions. In The Emergency Artist (2018), rhythm served as a break, as an element that abbreviates, interrupts and displaces the temporal structures of our existence, and in doing so, suspends these actions. ONON is the third and last performance in this series.

choreography Clément Layes
performance Cécile Bally, Mariana Vieira, Asaf Aharonson, Nir Vidan,
stage Jonas Maria Droste, Clément Layes
light Ruth Waldeyer
sound Steve Heather
costume Malena Modéer
video Christopher Hewitt
dramaturgy Jonas Rutgeerts
international communication Inge Koks
press and production björn & björn

production Public in Private / Clément Layes
coproduction Platform 0090
funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe and NPN Germany
supported by SOPHIENSÆLE Berlin, BUDA Kortrijk, STUK, Leuven and wpZimmer, Antwerp.